Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originally, the three were five, all Czechs: two brothers, Ctirad and Josef Masin, in their early 20s; a friend, Milan Baumer, 22, a military cadet; Zbynek Janata, 30, a factory executive; and Vaclav Svejda, 30, a disappropriated landowner. Armed with one revolver of about .35 caliber, two smaller automatics and 52 cartridges-arms hidden since World War II-the group formed up in Prague. Early in October they crossed the Czech-East German frontier at night. They were almost due south of Berlin and some 130 air miles away...
Brother Hilarion, a onetime sexton now in his early 30s, and Brother Bernardo, an ex-medical student in his late 20s. were both dissatisfied with the purely contemplative life. They decided to start an order that, by combining contemplation with work, would fulfill the seventh precept of spiritual mercy, to pray for the souls of the living and dead, and the seventh precept of corporal mercy, to bury the dead...
...brightest young graduate researchers at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the mid-20s were Fritz Albert Lipmann and Hans Adolf Krebs. Both took their work in biochemistry with utmost seriousness, but they never discussed the possibility of future fame. They would have been even less likely to do so if they had been able to foresee the course of German politics. Both were Jews...
Ignazio Silone is an Italian idealist who has spent a good part of a lifetime alternating between books and politics; the constant thing about Silone is that he has always been for the persecuted against the persecutors, as Ignazio Silone saw them. In his 20s he was a Communist, hopping back & forth between Stalin's Moscow and the underground in Mussolini's Italy. By his 303 he had seen enough of both totalitarianisms; he settled down in free Switzerland, wrote his famed novels of the Italian peasantry, Fontamara and Bread and Wine. After World War II, he went...
There was even a verse about him; it showed how the '20s felt about Earl Sande, even if it taught a lot of people to mispronounce the name (rhymes with grand). Wrote Columnist Damon Runyon with a Broadway mist...