Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remainder of the cast includes Leonard Kent, '43, star of the Dramatic Club's last year's hit, the Ascent of F-9, Priscilla Freeman, John Darr '42, Rufus Mathewson, '41, William Headley, '41, Leo Marx '41, and Harold Solomon...
...Washington, Constantin Fotitch, short, shy and excitable Yugoslav Minister, rushed to see Sumner Welles, came out shining-eyed to cable his joy to King Peter II over "Your Majesty's ascent to the noble throne. . . ." Mr. Welles, less austere than usual, received the press, told the newsmen of the latest message to the U. S. Minister to Yugoslavia: that under the terms of the Lend-Lease Act, President Roosevelt would be able to send material aid to nations resisting aggression. It was a promise to the new Yugoslav Government that it could count...
...Dramatic Club may well be decadent, but there have certainly never been enough people at recent shows to know this to be true. The Ascent of F-6 and The Family Reunion were well worth anyone's fifty cents...
...Geography Institute also announced other lectures, open to the public without charge, on various phases of modern geographical exploration. The schedule will be: February 24, "Black Head-hunters of the Pacific," Dr. Douglas L. Oliver, of the Peabody Museum, Harvard; March 10, "Ascent of Mount Bertha," Bradford Washburn; March 17, "Searching for the First Agriculturists," Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum; March 24, "Iceberg Ahead," William M. Rand, Jr.; April 14, "Australian Aborigines and Half-Castes," Joseph B. Birdsell; April 21, "Search for Sleeping Island," P. G. Downes; May 5, "Dominica, The Caribs' Last Stronghold," Walter H, Hodge...
Since Carol's fall and Premier General Ion Antonescu's ascent to power, the Codreanist Guards have watched the results of German occupation with growing anger. Horia Sima, leader of the moderate Guardists, was looked on as a traitor for accepting the Vice Premiership. Antonescu himself only joined the Guard after his coup, was hooted down as the German cat's-paw who had given Transylvania to the Hungarians. For the extremist Guards did not fancy the Nazis at close quarters. Among other things for which the Germans were blamed was a 300-400% rise in food...