Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Counting "uhhs" and "ohs" the Hero's words totaled 57. Defeated, discouraged, "Red" Dolan went away, wrote home to his paper that Mrs. Lindbergh must have been seasick because she was lying down. The News carried a castigating editorial, titled "Shrinking Lindy." The honeymooners continued eastward...
Wednesday. Following Stanley Baldwin's retirement. Ramsay James MacDonald went to Windsor, umbrella in hand, obedient to a royal summons, and accepted the King's command to form a new government. King George was out of bed and sitting up to receive him, but little Princess Elizabeth was noticeably absent...
...Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Super-educated is Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, schooled at Harrow and Cambridge, son of famed Historian Sir George Otto...
Last year the Foundation spent $21,690,738. Of that, $12,000,000 went as endowment for the New China Medical Board. To the China Medical Board also went the land, buildings and equipment of the Rockefeller-created Peking Union Medical College, one of China's main medical centres. To make the Chinese believe that the Rockefellers meant the China Medical Board to be nationalistic, Chinese have been placed in control of its board of trustees, which is to perpetuate itself...
Other Rockefeller Foundation 1928 expenditures went as usual to promote the development of medical knowledge by aiding schools of medicine, nursing and hygiene in various parts of the world (including 18 medical schools in 14 countries) and to promote public health by helping governments fight certain diseases (yellow fever in Brazil and West Africa, hookworm in 21 countries, malaria in the U. S. and elsewhere...