Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some visiting Germans drove to the nearby Black Forest, others gazed at Stuttgart's modernistic buildings, Bishop Theophil Würm-one of the Lutheran signers of a declaration drafted last week against Nazi religious aims-delivered a fighting sermon to his usual Sunday congregation in the Württemberg capital...
...shrunken and crumbling Basque front. As predicted, the Rightist columns found ineffective resistance among the 25,000 Basques and Asturian miners defending Santander and last week Santander fell. As predicted, Italy threw aside the last vestige of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War. The three Italian divisions-Black Arrow, Black Flame, 20th of March - which had helped reduce the city, marched in triumphantly and, in good Roman fashion, paraded a column of hairy Basque prisoners. Back home, the controlled Italian press acclaimed the surrender of Santander as "typically and essentially an Italian victory," fit reprisal for the embarrassing Italian rout...
...become a museum, the others are partially restored and used for religious services. The Jesuits had evangelized Lower California from the time they appeared in the New World, but by 1767 -six years before the Order was suppressed by the Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers and their work in California became unpopular and they were ousted. Their work was taken over by brown-cassocked Franciscans under the leadership of 54-year-old Fray Junipero, who had been born in Majorca, missionized in Mexico, learned the tongue of the Fame Indians and taught...
Edison did this for two years. General Manager Stringfellow kept the memoranda in a black loose-leaf notebook...
...Others: Babirusa or pig-deer; Cynopithecus nigrescens, the black, crested baboon...