Word: presented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that city each month and 32 new ones opened up. . . . A recent analysis of the restaurant business in Kansas City showed that of some 1,080 such establishments in 1928, 551 went out of business and almost exactly, the same number of new ones opened up. . . . If the present average turnover period in charge accounts of some 70 days could be shortened to, say, 40 days, the resultant values in saving in interest charges and by general acceleration of business would run into hundreds of millions of dollars...
Prim and precise as a New England diary was the annual report of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. He began: "The present secretary was appointed and qualified at 2:35 p.m. on March 5, 1929." Then followed a careful catalog of all the places he had been on official duty, with ship names and dates...
...wife to testify for (and against) each other in criminal cases; a grand jury to sit after the end of the court term; a consolidation to be made of all U. S. legal activities within the Department of Justice. For himself he asked little-removal by Congress of the present restriction which prohibits the Department from employing as a special assistant any lawyer who in his private practice is prosecuting a case against...
...distinguished brother-in-law was engrossed in great affairs of state, Mrs. Rogers went on another of her frequent trips to Washington. If she thought at all of her jail experience it was now a dim, happy memory, for women now have their votes and Mrs. Rogers' present errand was most peaceable. She went to present to a meeting of the National Woman's Party a suggestion for a convention of international law to eliminate discrimination against women in matters of nationality...
Motor horns honked, grey-green soldiers snapped to present arms, and a fleet of eight cars, preceded and followed by bicycle policemen, swept through the streets. To the disappointment of the crowds, the royal procession was quite as informal as the usual public appearances of Herbert Hoover...