Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ratification of the Franco-U. S. debt accord, throw any bonds received in payment on the security markets of the world, a possibility under Article VII of the agreement. French fear that Germans might eventually acquire these bonds, thus putting France under a sort of fiscal vassalage to her worst enemies, was thereby allayed. Since this particular "emotional factor" had loomed like a boojum, and threatened to rouse Frenchmen unalterably against ratification, to eliminate it was of paramount import...
...Singapore and in Sumatra. More than 200 humans perished; some 200 Sumatrans; many an Egyptian. At Santa Barbara, 3-year-old Colin Orr perished beneath a tumbling chimney. The town of Padang, Sumatra, collapsed in one thundering crash. Cairo reported over 4,000 houses in ruins. In Crete, the worst damage was demolition of archaeological treasures, especially at the Museum of Candia. Germany felt several shocks; also France, Italy, Southern Rhodesia and the seismograph at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.). Studying their charts of the globe's temblor areas, scientists had no explanation for the simultaneous shuddering of such...
...arbitrary and ruthless extermination not only of the foes of Fascismo but of his personal enemies as well. That the new Fascist Secretary General, Auguste Turati (TIME, April 18), ordered the arrest of these Fascist oligarchs, was touted as an omen that Mussolini has "prevailed" over the worst of his henchmen...
...French embraces and the parade of "beauty unadorned," in which "La Belle Hélène," a highland peasant wench but lately come to Paris, had been elected "Empress of the Voluptuous Contours" and suitably saluted by one and all. . . . Cabled the urbane United Press: "One of the worst orgies in the history of Paris...
...were sent for a five-mile walk by Coach Haines. As yet the University shell has not been put through a time trial, although it is possible that Captain Winthrop's men will be put through their paces for time tomorrow if the weather improves. This afternoon brought the worst weather conditions with which the eights have had to contend. No changes have been made in any of the boats with the exception of the 'shift occasioned by Watts' blistered hand...