Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the prisoner, turning to the Jury: "Gentlemen: My mother was suffering torture. The doctors agreed she could not recover. I felt that, though I broke the law, I did right. I'm willing to pay any penalty you think just. My action would not have been necessary if the...
The tongue-slip was double, for in the absence of Laborite Prime Minister MacDonald, Mr. Snowden was himself the acting Prime Minister. Said he with a wry grimace. "It will take a little time for us to recover from old habits."
Philadelphia. Magazines packed in bundles of five averaged 25? the bundle. All this seemed very commonsensical from the Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found...
Most Mexican houses are thick-walled, built of adobe, or mud. So frequently do Mexican householders, fearful of pillage, bury their valuables in adobe walls or back gardens, then find themselves unable to recover them, that it is an established custom of the country when renting or buying an old...
The Careless Age (First National). Masked by the fatuous title-on the stage Diversion, a play by John Van Druten-is a compact and legitimately dramatic study of adolescent love. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. acts a young medical student, ambitious son of a London doctor, who on a holiday meets an...