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McKinley   /məkˈɪnli/   Listen
McKinley

noun
1.
25th President of the United States; was assassinated by an anarchist (1843-1901).  Synonyms: President McKinley, William McKinley.
2.
A mountain in south central Alaska; the highest peak in North America (20,300 feet high).  Synonyms: Denali, Mount McKinley, Mt. McKinley.



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... period of particularly atrocious massacres in Bulgaria in the year 1876, the Russian people lost all patience. The Government was forced to intervene just as President McKinley was obliged to go to Cuba and stop the shooting-squads of General Weyler in Havana. In April of the year 1877 the Russian armies crossed the Danube, stormed the Shipka pass, and after the capture of Plevna, marched southward until they reached the gates of Constantinople. Turkey appealed ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon

... Where the outcome of a big piece of news may be predicted, advance headlines are set up and held ready to be clamped on the press. In the case of the Willard-Johnson fight, two heads were held awaiting the knockout: JESS WILLARD NEW CHAMPION and JACK JOHNSON RETAINS TITLE. When President McKinley died in September, 1901, one prominent Milwaukee newspaper man held locked on his presses from 8:00 A.M. until the President died at midnight the plates that would print the whole story of Mr. McKinley's life, assassination, ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer

... History, arranged by D. C. Knowlton (Philadelphia, McKinley Publishing Co., 65 cents), contain much valuable material in the shape of a syllabus, source quotations, outline maps, pictures, and other aids. The following syllabi have been prepared ...
— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... War officer, and a Governor and Congressman from Ohio, Mr. McKinley took the oath on a platform erected on the north East Front steps at the Capitol. It was administered by Chief Justice Melville Fuller. The Republican had defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan on the issue of the gold standard in the currency. Thomas Edison's ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... attention to an earthenware burial-urn and cover, Nos. 27976 and 27977, National Museum, but very recently received from Mr. William McKinley, of Milledgeville, Ga. It was exhumed on his plantation, ten miles below that city, on the bottom lands of the Oconee River, now covered with almost impassible canebrakes, tall grasses, and briers. We had a few months ago from the same source one of the covers, of which the ornamentation ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow


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