Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffering that 1938 brought the world, no man suffered more than Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's last Minister to Great Britain. It was not important to him that he lost his job. The important things he lost were a country and an ideal, founded by his late great father, which he himself had worked 20 years to preserve. Last week Jan Masaryk was in the U. S., putting what was left to him-as proud a name as there is in Europe-to work not for the Czechs but for democracy in general and persecuted Jews in particular...
...Majesty's Government desire to make it clear that they are not prepared to accept or to recognize changes of the nature indicated [closing of China's Open Door] which are brought about by force. They intend to adhere to the principles of the Nine-Power Treaty and cannot agree to unilateral modification of its terms...
...goddam spurious Irish colleges," Carroll as a young man lit out for Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...
Many a youngster has grown up in the museum, become a learned member of its science club. Recently a little girl brought in a medal and asked whether it was made of gold. A 9-year-old boy determined its specific gravity, answered that...
...silk about 1430, is a far cry from the type of pseudo-Persian fantasy, with harem maidens, moons and gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½ in., belongs to the Timurid period of 'Persian art, after the Mongol conquerors, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree and flowers are all in the Persian style of clear, brilliant, primarily decorative design...