Word: woking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCadden, 93, one-time nurse to Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed governor; in Milford, Pa. Governor Pinchot, himself recovering from a minor operation, cut short his convalescence to visit her bedside a Grey Towers, the home of the Pinchots, and of Nurse McCadden. Hearing his voice, she stirred, woke from her coma, cried: "My boy! My boy!" But soon after she yielded to a fatal relapse...
Last week, Wall Street woke with a start to discover another new industry had invaded its security market. Strength in what facetious financial writers here dubbed the "dough stocks" emphasized the growing importance of the baking industry generally. The stock market has long been familiar with "cracker" companies like National Biscuit and Loose-Wiles; recently, the "bread companies," like United Kakeries, Ward Baking and General Baking, have attracted attention on the "Big Board" and Curb alike...
...soon forgotten. Last October U. S. Ambassador-to-Britain George Harvey made his valedictory address to the Pilgrims' Society in London and reminded Dame Europa that Mr. Hughes had made a speech and had offered to help her in that speech. The then British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon woke up and cabled to Mr. Hughes to ask if he really had made a speech offering to help Europe. His motive was to bring pressure to bear on France. Mr. Hughes replied in the affirmative, but made four conditions to a prospective Economic Conference...
...There has also been some interesting work done by this department," said Mr. Fradd. "Several years ago we had a case of a young man who woke up one morning and found the whole side of his face paralyzed, and doctors were unable to assign any particular cause for it. In six weeks under Mr. Neudorf the action of the facial muscles was entirely restored. Another man who had been fencing with his room-mate was pierced through the eye by the point of a foil, and although the sight was not impaired, his entire left side was paralyzed. Leaving...
Later in the day when the inhabitants of Wieringen woke up they found a letter from the Crown Prince...