Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dismissed to their homes all youths who had come up for compulsory military training...
Bewildered patriots wondered whom to believe, last week, when Hungary's two foremost Counts and statesmen made public and opposite answers to a vital question: "Is or is not the Archduke Otto of Habsburg now King of Hungary, since he has come of age?" (TIME...
Colombia is prospering vastly, not only on account of major U. S. oil and fruit developments (see Map), but because the taste of Americans is rapidly turning from strong coffee to mild-the kind grown in Colombia, whereas stronger brands come from Brazil. The popularity of platinum and the present Parisian rage for emeralds are also potent prosperity factors, for Colombia is the largest producer of the white metal and the green stone. France is less than half as great as Colombia, in area; New York City is only slightly less in population...
...Murderer Chung Yi-miao was dragged protesting to his cell, meticulous observers noted that the Lord Chief Justice had mistakenly referred to him as "Miao"-apparently supposing that to be his surname. Of course Chinese surnames or "last names" come first, and the Lord Chief Justice should have said, "Chung is guilty," unless His Lordship desired to refer to the prisoner familiarly by his given name, which was Yi-miao, not Miao...
...composer had the ovation. A sturdy, middle-aged Italian, Respighi had come to the U. S. especially for the premiere. Only in Heaven, he announced after the general rehearsal, could one hope for so perfect a production as the Metropolitan's. The Metropolitan's audience tried to return the compliment, called him again and again before the curtain. For critics The Sunken Bell was commendable, if unimportant, an opera to make one pleasant evening, if scarcely half a dozen...