Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commerce. When Christians drove the Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived in Amsterdam was Manasseh ben Israel, who persuaded Cromwell to allow the Jews to return to England (they were expelled in 1290). That return allowed Benjamin Disraeli, a Sephardi, to become Prime Minister of England and Sir Philip Sassoon, also a Sephardi, to become the rich crony of the present Prince of Wales. (England's potent Isaacs...
Previous Wilkins accomplishments which make his polar submarine trip seem not incredible: extended exploration work in north polar regions with Vilhjalmur ("No Vegetables!") Stefansson, exploration of tropical Australia for the British Museum, flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen with the late Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, 6,000 mi. of flying in south polar regions...
...British brothers flying against Germany. At the climax the brave brother shot the timid brother to keep him from telling British army secrets to the Germans. There was also a love story which ended when the girl got drunk and plunged into the arms of another man, also drunk. Ben Lyon, as the timid brother, acted best. Discounting its less efficient elements the picture still stands as an astounding achievement. The air sequences will draw gasps from the most stolid patron. In the early reels a duel (German) is most adroitly handled. Scenes on board a Zeppelin raiding London...
Freshmen and other beginners will do well to note the action of those who have ben around here for some time and who can show better than a gentleman's average. It is derisively called "cramming" by some, but to the knowing it is a thorough review of the backgrounding that the course in general has presented and the "nailing down" of the most valuable specific points...
...other times, Author Hazard indulges in metaphor. "I have been, reading this stuff by Ben Lindsay about sex. I really can't see anything more complicated about the sex business than about the business of buying an automobile...