Word: whilst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawyer by trade, like Stresemann, and one of his protegés in the moderate People's party, Dr. Curtius entered the German cabinet in 1926, served hand-in-glove with the great foreign minister until his death. Whilst Stresemann strove for peace by diplomacy, Curtius, as Minister of Economic Affairs, patched up the first post-War commercial treaty between France and Germany. He is a low tariff man, a quiet optimist, a vigorous advocate of more and still more loans from abroad, "loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt...
...book. Sixteen of these are temperance drinks, such as: "DRINK FOR THE DOG DAYS. A bottle of soda water poured into a large goblet, in which a lemon ice has been placed, forms a deliciously cool and refreshing drink; but should be taken with some care, and positively avoided whilst you are very...
Female bandits like Two-Gun Tittle and Kangaroo Kate conduct a reign of terror in Greenwich Village whilst a more charming female looks into the murder of her revivalist uncle...
TIME prides itself on its accuracy. TIME therefore will, no doubt, be glad to refer back to p. 14, of TIME, May 9, where there was a paragraph called "Vanishing Coat" telling how David Lloyd George had had his coat stolen whilst dining at the Savoy...
...galleries shook with fear, whilst the stumps in the Potomac River bobbed up and down in unison with his vociferous periods." [Laughter...