Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studied ambiguity of the 1917 declaration by Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, can be attributed Britain's contradictory rule in the old Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. A one-sentence, 67-word declaration, it promised a "Jewish national homeland" but conspicuously failed to define whether a Jewish homeland meant a home with an Arab or a Jewish majority. At first high Arab leaders, equally lulled by Lord Balf our's vagueness, were inclined to welcome their "Semitic brothers" back to the Holy Land...
Next month, people who can afford to pay 50? for a magazine and have the time to read 30,000 word "abridgments" will be offered Omnibook, published and edited by Robert Kenneth Straus, New York City Councilman and son of Jesse Isadore Straus, late Macy store tycoon and Ambassador to France. Each Omnibook page will contain four book pages with margins trimmed. Each number will include about 100 pages from each of five books...
...staked out mining claims near Beardmore, and was digging and blasting in his spare time. He took them home, thinking they were Indian relics. His wife insisted that he get "that junk" out of the house. Dodd relegated them to the woodshed, but kept on talking about them. Eventually word of the find reached the ears of Curator Currelly, who asked the railroadman to bring his treasures to Toronto. After some study the archeologist became convinced that he had genuine Norse armor of the late 10th or early 11th Centuries. He sent photographs of the sword, ax and shield fragments...
...Strictly speaking, the word Viking refers only to Norse pirates...
...Crosley has been wistful about his first and least successful love, the automobile. For some time he has been reported toying with a little two-cylinder car, to sell at about $200. Last month stockholders received a letter proposing that the company change its name-leaving out the word Radio-and alter articles of incorporation "so that the company will be able, if conditions warrant, to enter the automobile industry when, as and if, such entry into the automobile industry appears desirable...