Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The quad--north on Elm Street--is the newest group of buildings, composed of large Colonial structures. The older, smaller, buildings on the Old Campus and along both sides of Elm Street more closely resemble old fashioned houses. In fact, many are reconverted houses, a factor which would account for...
The Great Strength. Yet through the 162 years of struggle, the vitality of France, of both Frances, remained. Through the ridiculous republics and the comic restorations, through the financial swindles and the sordid half-hearted colonial adventures, the France of peasant, artisan, artist-the France of the civilized common man...
In December 1949, the 7,836-ton Empire Marshal put out from London to pick up war materials at French ports for hard-pressed French soldiers fighting Communists in Indo-China. At Dunkirk, Communist dockers refused to load the ship. Propaganda leaflets, mysteriously appearing in the crew's quarters...
Unlike the Oxford Dictionary of American English, which set out to record all words ever used by Americans (the project on which Editor Mathews served his apprenticeship), the Dictionary of Americanisms includes only those stamped unmistakably with the label "Made in U.S.A." To find them, Mathews plowed through the 100...
Died. Lieut. General José Enrique Varela, 59, one of Dictator Franco's top generals during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), and once considered his likeliest successor; of leukemia; in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco. During the Spanish war, Varela led the Fascists to a decisive victory at...