Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought an old what-you-call flivver last fall," reminisces Guillermo. ''For weeks we rode around making much fun. But one day the flivver broke down six miles from Gettysburg and we left it there for a good joke...
...These recipients of the Government's bounty comprise 69% of the state's inhabitants. They should prove a formidable factor in ensuing elections. "No land owner of U. S. nationality was affected by the expropriations," continued the Ministerial statement. "Of the 62 capitalists dispossessed one was Italian, six were Spaniards, and the rest Mexicans...
...six in the morning, most Roman citizens are still abed. Few were the early risers who saw, one morning last week, four automobiles speeding by a devious route-past the Temple of Vesta, the Palatine, the Circus Maximus and the Coliseum-to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the cathedral of the Diocese, its high altar reserved to the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. A small party of ecclesiastics got out of the motors, entered the church...
After conferring the galerum rubrum (red hat) and cappa magna (Cardinal's cloak) on the six new Cardinals named last month (TIME, Dec. 2), His Holiness Pope Pius XI last week published an encyclical letter to the Catholic episcopacy. Excerpt: "The greatest malady of the modern age, the principal source of the evils we all deplore, is the lack of reflection. . . . There is only one remedy which I can propose. This is to invite tired souls to have recourse to spiritual exercises. . . . We must not neglect this supernatural breath which is life to many souls...
...Canada to meet with them in Manhattan and talk things over. Last week the pulpsters replied: Their minds were made up, they would not go to Manhattan to discuss the matter further, the price would be raised to $60 per ton with a $5 reduction for the first six months on three-year contracts...