Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Christmas less than three weeks away, three prominent charitable organizations are conducting their annual drives at Harvard. These groups are the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association...
Although situated far away in Northwest Europe, Finland has long been considered a close friend by Americans. It is a strong, clean, upstanding nation; its government is democratic, it has always minded its own business, and held no designs of aggression. Finland is the land of Sibelius, the land where the Olympics were to be held; the land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they...
Young men crowded around the automobile as Browder was being driven away from Strathcona Hall, where he had addressed an audience of 600 persons, mostly students, some of whom showered him with pennies and interrupted his speech with guffaws and boos...
...went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture-then I destroy it. In the end, though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else...
...eyed, gifted Prince Potemkin, best-beloved among Catherine's shoals of lovers, "looked not unlike Charlie Chaplin." He got away and took a rest from passion whenever he could. Tableau of "the broad Russian nature": Potemkin, at the battlefront, in his underground palace, amusing himself, between attacks of acute melancholia, with concubines, an orchestra, guitars...