Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high domed hall of Washington's National Academy of Sciences rang with applause last week as famed scientists presented proofs of theories. They discussed...
...doorbell at the home of Joseph Adams, 300-pound mayor of West City, Ill., rang one evening. Mayor Adams went to the door, opened it, and was shot dead by two young men. The bullets were poisoned, to make doubly sure that the wounds would be fatal...
...shots rang out in Douglas, Ga., last week, and reverberated as far as Washington. L. S. Peterson, recently relieved of his job of postmaster for shortage in his accounts, had killed his clerk, then himself. He left a letter asserting that $2,000 had been demanded of him in five years for Federal patronage...
Though these phrases rang out against Britain, observers were confident that no effective steps to enforce them could be taken by fledgling Prime Minister Nahass. True he is the successor of the late famed Zaghlul Pasha who forged and created the Wafd; but Nahass Pasha, wafded into power, is scarcely a match for lean-limbed, steely-eyed Baron Lloyd...
They came to dedicate and present to the city of New York a monument commemorating that titanic hero, Lajos (Louis) Kossuth (1802-94). For a day Manhattan rang with speeches fervently recalling how Kossuth proclaimed the independence of Hungary and became Dictator in 1848, only to see his fatherland reconquered within a twelve-month by Austro-Russian troops supporting the Austrian Boy-Emperor Franz Josef, then a stripling of 19. The fact that in 1851 Kossuth was brought to Manhattan on a U. S. man-of-war and honored as a supreme apostle of Liberty gave point to the dedication...