Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within 72 hours Last Stander Chang was put to absolute rout, disappeared, escaped in disguise to few-knew-where. Last week he was found to be living at Dairen, under Japanese protection, with a "household" of 35 women, and allegedly with $10.000,000 salted in foreign securities...
...every song she could remember. That was not insouciance at the moon's stare but a way of keeping warm and awake. By and by the moon set. After 13 hr., 16 min., 45 sec. in the air alone, Record-Holder Smith returned to earth. Endurance records by women, qua women, have no official standing...
Because the Yale School of Nursing proved during five years of trial, that it was educating nurses rather than training women to be high-grade hospital menials, the Rockefeller Foundation last week gave the school $1,000,000 for endowment. When the Rockefeller Foundation gives money to an institution it means that institution to stand as model for others. The Yale School of Nursing has 116 students enrolled. More than half are college students...
...said: 'Then-I am!' " It was Carla who jumped. She and Paul were almost drowned, were sucked into a river cave, crawled out, but not before Carla was hurt by a rubble-heap slip. Claire went off with a stoop-shouldered sculptor. But not until the two women had confabulated on their emotions...
...women & children bought and paid taxes on 105,925,765,651 cigarets in 1928. It was the first time U. S. cigaret sales reached the 100-billion mark-a per capita consumption of approximately 1,000 cigarets a year. About 8,700,000,000 more cigarets were smoked in 1928 than in 1927. U. S. smokers had a 1928 cigaret bill of almost exactly two billion dollars...