Word: 19th
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Throughout the 19th century, Russia remained the world's third largest naval power (after Britain and France), but it was a largely untested one. The testing came in the 1904-05 war with Japan. In the straits of Tsushima, the Japanese met a fleet of 37 Russian ships and sank or captured all but four of them. It was the last time the Russians fought a naval engagement on the high seas...
...Catholic cathedral has received a few letters warning that he will "be fried in hell," Rotterdammers have generally taken the razing in stride. "The bishop," says one Catholic merchant, "is a first-class businessman." A second Dutch prelate, Bishop Hubertus Ernst of Breda, is now planning to demolish his 19th century cathedral for similar reasons...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Part 2 of the award-winning Italian film Testadirapa, a 19th century tale of a father who is jailed for believing that his son will get more from roaming free than from going to school...
...number of Nielsen recordings on the U.S. market jumped from three in 1960 to 35 at the end of 1967; last year alone, 16 were issued. Today he is a "new" discovery who, like Mahler and Ives, appeals to this eclectic era by combining the breadth of the 19th century symphony with the experimental spirit of 20th century music...
...with business leaders, he also insisted on assurances of community support, since "I cannot do it alone." Once installed in office, Briggs undertook a massive publicity campaign to bring home to Clevelanders just how bad the schools were. He even walked around town displaying photographic blowups of the stinking, 19th century toilets-open sewage troughs with a waste receptacle at one end-still used by 15,000 students. By 1966, Briggs's efforts had paid off in the form of a 20% increase in school taxes and a $66 million bond issue...