Word: adding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vatican last week were holy stirrings. Pope Pius XI was to address the Cardinals and add to their number, which Death had depleted from 70 (full strength) to 58. A secret consistory was held. Silver trumpets sounded. The great Sistine choir chanted. There were parades and regalias...
Rock Island, Davenport. Moäne; Sea Scout's Mother Sirs: Being a kamaiina myself, I found your ac count of Honolulu families very interesting, and I would like to add the following. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Judd, was the first white woman born in the Hawaiian Islands. She married Captain S. G. Wilder, who organized the first inter-island steamship line, known as the Wilder Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving...
...champion in 1905, repeating in 1907. Last week she was defeated in the quarter-finals by England's Joan Ridley but one moment of glory had been hers. Then she did one of the little things which all celebrities sometimes do and which, when they are discovered, add affection to the public's awareness. At the end of one day's matches she purchased a newspaper from a boy standing by the entrance to the stadium. She peered curiously into his face, then asked: "Aren't you Wiggins who used to be ball...
...letter of Thomas T. Gill in the issue of June 24 and your footnotes appended, concerning license tags on cars, was interesting. He named three States (your footnote adding another) designating their tags as front and rear, and likewise the three States had laws banning the teaching of the theory of evolution in state-aided schools. I wish to add that Kentucky also has the front tag designated as front and the rear designated as, "Kentucky for Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this...
...Borah resolution-the coalition was beaten, 39 to 38. But 38 represented the virtual rock bottom of the coalition's strength which could be augmented by minor compromises, when the item-by-item voting comes. Senator Borah, in a thunderous speech, predicted the cement duty would add null to the cost of road building, denounced the glass schedules from "eyes to mirrors," vowed he would rather see no bill passed than that produced by the House...