Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lost Patrol (British). There was material for a masterpiece in the situation of these eleven soldiers on the Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence...
...upon retiring from business, find little to do. In Washington, D. C., there is, however, a young man who is devoting his life to picture collecting and propaganda. He is Duncan Phillips, tall, slender son of the late Major D. Clinch Phillips, Pittsburgh manufacturer (glass). For eleven years young Phillips has been owner of a one-man museum of modern...
...periods, eleven Carnegie Technicians played as though every one of them rated the All American. They scored 13 first downs and 13 points. The Trojans, fidgeting in the line and scrambling over each other after the ball was snapped, were lucky to get two passes over to tie the score at the end of the half. In the third quarter Carnegie Tech started again but Eyth fumbled and Trojan Tappaan recovered...
...inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...
Coincident with this settlement was a request that the U. S. government discontinue a civil suit brought against onetime Alien Property Custodians Francis P. Garvan and A. Mitchell Palmer, the eleven partners of Hornblower & Weeks, the Chase Securities Co. and others...