Word: alberts
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...sweetest spinach this side of the Yangtze River. Now, out of farmers' fields, an entire German-style town has sprouted, its brightly hued gingerbread homes modeled on those of Weimar in Germany. The new town, which will soon house some 30,000 distinctly un-German people, was designed by Albert Speer, son of Adolf Hitler's favorite architect. Forty kilometers away in Songjiang, barefoot migrant workers are building another massive satellite city, this time a vision of ye olde England with tidy Tudor cottages, cobbled paths, a giant castle and a garden maze. In Pujiang, another Shanghai suburb...
...said I hoped they would use Chinese actors in the leading parts," she recalled, "to which he replied that this was impossible because of the American star system." Wong, who had just turned 30, tested several times for O-lan, meeting with skepticism and animosity. The skeptic was Albert Lewin, the MGM producer in charge of casting the film. After a screen test, he wrote an evaluation expressing "a little disappointed as to looks. Does not seem beautiful enough to make Wang's infatuation convincing; however, deserves consideration." She also tested for the role of Wang's second, younger wife...
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...either. Mainland China, his final objective, eluded him because of the sudden illness that took his life, putting an untimely end to his quest to spread the faith to all four corners of the world. St. Francis Xavier is highly venerated because of his evangelical achievement and nothing more. Albert Tan-Mo Makati, the Philippines...
...Risk in the Media” and “Health care in the U.S.” Thompson begins the chapters with her own words of wisdom about assessing and managing the risk, followed by relevant and insightful quotations from scientists, authors, politicians and other famous people including Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, Mark Twain and Sir Winston Churchill...