Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station but no less keen to begin the big show...
...unpleasantness with the Japanese military who thought he was leading a pack of White Russians, Nicholas Roerich appeared in Kweisui, Suiyuan Province, ready to start home, his work done two months ahead of time. With him he brought seeds of 300 drought-resisting grasses, some of which may soon begin to carpet the naked patches...
...heard, the U. S. fiscal reaction was: "This whole thing looks queer." With President Roosevelt just done up by the Senate in a neutrality cat's cradle, what U. S. syndicate, asked Wall Streeters, has millions to risk in Ethiopia, where U. S. economic interest would have to begin by calling for the Marines...
...arrived Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja Raja I Rajgan of Kapurthala, and a pretty woman. They were late. Ignoring a strict Salzburg rule, the lean old Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation. Then the flashing-eyed Maestro turned back, flung...
Although news of the Tercentenary celebration of Harvard College will be constantly before the members of the University during the next year, the actual celebration will not begin until the summer of 1936 with the opening of the Summer School, and will conclude on September...