Word: settledness
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"The Army and Navy have been reduced to a low, peacetime basis. . . . Hundreds of millions of accounts have been settled with the railroads. ... A great revival of industry took place, which is now spreading to agriculture. Complaint of unemployment has ceased, wages have increased. . . .
"The law in this country, that a wife takes the surname of the husband, is as well settled as that the domicile of the wife merges in the domicile of the husband. A wife might reside apart from her husband, but so long as she remains his lawful wife she...
The major expenditures, so far, have been for bringing witnesses overland to the Capital from the Far West. Moreover, the special prosecutors, Owen G. Roberts and ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene, have as yet not received a cent. A bill will have to be introduced at the next session of Congress...
The Mt. Everest Expedition of 1924 returned to humanity and civilization. Gen. Bruce, head of the expedition, who was forced to retire because of an attack of malaria (TIME, June 16) rode out of Darjelling and met the returning party several miles in the country. When the party reached the...
In the course of the next year, Conrad completed the novel, which was Almayer's Folly; in another year it was published. This first book was seven years from the writing of its first word to its printing. That same year saw Conrad's marriage. Shortly afterwards he gave up...