Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of New Mexico went to Federal Court last week to stop the U.S. Government from grabbing any more of its land. This time it was the U.S. Army which wanted full title to a chunk of New Mexico almost as big as New Jersey - the 7,200-square-mile White Sands Proving Ground area for guided missiles...
...anti-Leopoldist big gun was Socialist Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. Boomed Spaak: "The referendum would not be held without fighting in Belgium...
Islam's missionaries to Holland, however, have not had easy going. First schooled in their own soft Urdu, they had to learn the harsh Dutch language. Then they tirelessly passed out leaflets (20,000 a year) at big city railroad stations, beaches and among downtown shopping crowds...
...Newfoundland's west coast, silvery Atlantic salmon were running in a score of rivers. The big ones picked the lordly Humber. Last week, U.S. sportsmen were heading in to try the Humber's limpid pools. On the more popular of Newfoundland's 108 major salmon rivers, cabins were booked solid. (Cost: $25 a day for board, room, canoe and guide...
...late Gertrude Stein was talking (in 1939) about a dapper British baronet who also happened to be an artist and close friend of hers: Sir Francis Cyril Rose. Coming from the shrewd old observer who had "discovered" Picasso, Stein's praise was a big boost for Rose's last London exhibition ten years ago; but not even Stein could then make Rose's work smell sweet to British critics. Last week things were different: Rose's new show at London's plush little Gimpel Fils Gallery had blossomed into a triumph...