Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago, swish U. S. skiers would have muttered into their parkas if they had been forced to stay on their own side of the Atlantic during March. This year, with Europe verboten, the habitues of St. Moritz, St. Anton and other Alpine resorts have discovered that the U. S. has pretty good skiing, too. Instead of a troop of self-taught enthusiasts who yell "track" and schuss helter-skelter down a hill, the U. S. now boasts a well-trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead...
...days after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given...
...much worried about the visit of Mr. Summer Welles to Europe," said J. Anton de Haas, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships, in an interview yesterday...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Munich Philharmonic, Siegmund von Hausegger conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Written in the years 1891-94, shortly before Austrian Composer Anton Bruckner died, his 9th symphony remained unperformed for nine years, never became popular outside Austria. But present-day concertgoers are be ginning to find its long, leisurely spans of melody well worth cocking...
...Saved the Donets coal-mining region from General Anton Denikin's forces...