Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...British for failure to fulfill their aspirations, for there was not one attack upon any representative of British authority. 3) When the outbreak came the British Were attempting to arbitrate the Wailing Wall question, a policy still regarded by Britain as the only possible method of settling the point. 4) The Palestine Government is not possessed of unlimited funds for agricultural developments and other expenditures which the Commission recommends...
...President last week, and for only seven of the intervening years had he been out of office. During his first term abrupt persons kidnaped the kinetic little man, who has been called the "Bantam Roosevelt of Peru," tried to force him to sign a written resignation at pistol's point...
Above the gabble of minor seers there last week arose the well-respected voice of Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, studious vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Distinguishing the present world-wide depression from the domestic depressions of 1924 and 1927, Col. Ayres, writing in Collier's, predicted a turning point in the near future. "Now arises the emotion of fear," he said. "Things ,,ere [last spring] brighter looking than they were. Now they look darker than they are. This is the last phase of the depression...
...give 3,000 brace, rents for $15,000 with its house and gamekeepers, but without house-servants. The grouse season brings Scotland an annual income of about $10,000,000. To shoot Scotch grouse, a visitor gets in a car with his host after breakfast and drives to some point on the edge of the moors. Then he gets out and walks to the butt-a crescent-shaped blind screened with furze. Last year one U. S. millionaire kept a tractor at the moor's edge in which he drove to the butt after leaving his car, but this...
Marjorie Morrill gave Betty Nuthall her hardest test of the tournament. She won the first set after the English girl had had her set-point twice. As though this had definitely decided the way the match was going to go, tall Marjorie Morrill took a lead of 4-2 in the second set. Betty Nuthall has been known to go to pieces as startlingly when she was behind as when she was ahead and for the first time the gallery had something to pay attention to. Further, as Betty Nuthall started to pick up a little she broke a racquet...