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They watched the radio speedometer creep up 1-2-3-4-5-6 steadily it rose as the acceleration pressed them hard against the back of the seats 8-9 still it rose as the hum of the generator became a low snarl 10-11-12 they were rocketing at twelve miles a second, the tenuous air about the ship shrieking in a thin scream of protest as it parted on the streamlined bow.
The 'fourth objective' of December 8-9 well and truly laid the foundations for Jerusalem's security, and relieved the inhabitants from the accumulated burdens of more than three years of war. We had nibbled at pieces of ground to flatten out the line here and there, but in the main the line the Turks assaulted was that fourth objective. The Turks put all their hopes on their last card.
Between February 8-9, 1916, the German infantry stormed the first-line French positions over a stretch of more than 800 yards, capturing 100 prisoners and five machine guns. Small sections of these trenches were retaken and held. The German report stated that the French "were unable to reconquer any part of their lost positions."
In 1300, on the death of the king's childless cousin, Earl Edmund, the wealthy earldom of Cornwall escheated to the crown. To Edward's contemporaries the acquisition of the earldoms of Norfolk and Cornwall seemed worthy to be put alongside the conquests of Wales and Scotland. See John of London, Commendatio lamentabilis in Chron. of Edw. I. and Edw. II., ii., 8-9.
'I get in the full summer months an hour for reading by being dressed at 5.30 A.M. At 5.30 I see the lads washing, &c., 7 A.M. breakfast all together, in hall, 7.30 chapel, 8-9.30 school, 9.30-12.30 industrial work. During this time I have generally half an hour with Mr.
December 1 British retreat from near Bagdad. Dec. 4 Ford "peace party" sails for Europe. Dec. 8-9 Allies defeated in Macedonia. Dec. 15 Sir John Douglas Haig succeeds Sir John French as chief of English Armies on west front. January 8 British troops at Kut-el-Amara surrounded. Jan. 9 British evacuate Gallipoli peninsula. Jan. 13 Austrians capture Cetinje, capital of Montenegro.
Then he quotes Deut. xxxii. 8-9: "When the Most High divided the nations, when he dispersed the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the Angels of God; and the Lord's portion was his people Jacob, and Israel the cord of his inheritance."
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go! and he goeth; and to another, Come I and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this; and he doeth it. MATT. viii. 8-9. This miracle of the healing of the centurion's servant is the second of the great series which Matthew gives us.
Yet the retreat was successfully accomplished, with all the stores, and, after destroying a tunnel and a bridge across the Vardar, it was continued to Gradetz, where heavy intrenchments had been thrown up. Here, on December 8-9, 1915, the Bulgarians delivered a very violent attack, but were driven off with heavy losses.
Senator John H. Bankhead was equally opposed. Both Senators had voted against the submission of the Federal Amendment and of the ten members in the Lower House only one, William B. Oliver of Tuscaloosa, had voted in favor. Because of the campaign no convention took place in 1919. On April 8-9, 1920, the last one of the State Equal Suffrage Association, as such, was held in Montgomery.
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