Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richmond, Va., where Governor Byrd shook his hand heartily and Mrs. Byrd put a rose in his buttonhole, the Nominee planned what he would say about the tariff. In his speech of acceptance, he had said: "The Democratic Party does not, and under my leadership will not, advocate any sudden or drastic revolution in our economic system which would cause business upheaval or economic distress. This principle was recognized as far back as the passage of the Underwood Tariff bill...
...were caused by wood alcohol. Most of them occurred on the lower east side waterfront. The city police arrested purveyors of a decoction known as "smoke" which sells at 5? or 10?^per glass. "Smoke" is usually composed of pure alcohol and coloring matter. What had happened was a sudden, general substitution of wood alcohol for pure alcohol.- Mayor James John Walker said the vendors of wood alcohol were guilty of homicide, that it was up to the District Attorney's office to act. Everyone expected the intervention and assistance of Federal forces, lately so loudly active in Manhattan...
Signs. Ways of recognizing old age: headaches, vertigo, apoplectic attacks, convulsions, sudden and profound lapses of memory, confusion, restlessness, aphasia, physical disability, inability to assimilate new ideas (misoneism, neophobia). (Menas S. Gregory of Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan...
...establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point was the result of numerous considerations, mainly strategic and topographical. The sudden volte-face here of the Hudson was seized upon by Revolutionary military leaders as the logical place to hinder hostile passage of the river; and the long, tragic interlude of Arnold and Andre, with the failure of the British campaign treacherously supported by them, is interwoven with the importance of this region in the war. The close of the Revolution brought recommendations for the continuance of an army training post here; a Military Academy had been suggested...
...Switzerland, last week, there was a sudden muffled roar in the Arbedo Valley. The tip of Monte Arbino, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, was seen to quiver. One rock, then another, bounced and skidded down the mountain's side. Finally the whole peak slid clumsily into the surrounding valley. A huge cloud of dust spouted upward, for several days hung heavily over the scene of the avalanche...