Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To be near the personage for whom it is mouthpiece, L'Osservatore Romano lately moved its offices from Rome into Vatican City. Last week, Pius XI entered his new U. S. made motorcar (six-cylinder Graham-Paige) and drove, accompanied by chamberlains and guards, 550 yards up the street...
> Complete files of the London Times, from its first issue in 1785 down to date, are rare. Not even the Times's own file is complete. The Royal Statistical Society's file, complete from 1785 to 1930, lately sold for $3,000. Bidders from the U. S. and...
In Tarboro, N. C., one George Jenkins became reconciled with Olivia Morgan. In a spat, he had beaten her, knocked her down, tried to extract from her mouth some gold fillings he had paid for.
In Milburn, N. J., Anton Boslavage, going up hill in his 15-ton steamroller, pulled the wrong lever. The roller rolled backward down the hill, got going faster and faster, reached town at 45 m. p. h., crushed two automobiles, broke a sidewalk, knocked the corner off a building, tossed...
In Allahabad last week thousands of pilgrims had assembled to watch the great procession of the feasts of Kumbh Mela. To the shrill squealing of oboes, the thumping of drums, gaily bedizened camels, horses and elephants swayed solemnly down the streets. In the midst of the procession a nervous, rat...