Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...more than nine the penalty is 3%. Ray Hanson's penalties were heavy and Fred Stanek was declared the winner. He had husked a net load of 2,123.8 Ib., 30.34 bu. of grain. Farmers felt that he could have equalled the all-time record of 35.8 bu. set by Elmer Williams of Illinois ("The Praying Husker") in 1925 had Farmer Palmer's stand of corn been better than...
...Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two pearls, diamond-set and large as cherries...
...seriousness a prominent Indian delegate estimated that to deal with, without skimping, the questions which occupied Sir John Simon and Lord Irwin for 36 months, the conference must sit for at least 34 months. But the British cry last week was "Speed!" The MacDonald government tentatively set three months as the conference time limit...
This was the famed "Black Tom Disaster." A year later came the "Kingsland Disaster." and both were attributed to "German agents." Last week at The Hague the German-American Mixed Claims Commission, set up in 1922 and consisting of a German Commissioner, a U. S. Commissioner and a U. S. umpire, rendered decision upon the U. S. Government's claim against the German Government for $40.000.000 compensation (TIME, Oct. 6). Ruled the Commission...
...spark from this fire ignited some excelsior which had been left carelessly under a box car on a siding less than 100 feet from the watchmen's shanty. The freight car was loaded with small shells which exploded and set fire to other cars. Finally a car loaded with black powder in the very centre of the yard exploded and after that everything went...