Word: conned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beginning. His book, Das Kapital, was a disappointment to Marx. When it finally appeared (after some 18 years of work), Engels was pressed into service to write reviews, both pro & con, in a vain attempt to attract some attention to it. Marx said: "Das Kapital will not bring in enough money to pay for the cigars I smoked while I wrote it." Marx's contemporaries scarcely knew that he was alive, much less what he stood for. He did acquire a brief notoriety during the Paris Commune of 1871, which was regarded as his handiwork. Said he: "Newspaper...
...program for all affairs specified the type of dress to be worn: traje corriente (street dress) for a few luncheons; traje chaqué (striped pants and cutaway coat) for the inauguration, and traje frac (white tie) con decoraciones for the banquets. By the day before the ceremonies started, there wasn't a cutaway coat or a full dress suit for rent or sale in all Venezuela...
Despite all this, the Varsity was probably playing its best hockey of the season, and with a few more breaks might have turned the game into a con test once they got started. But Dartmouth held the edge in every department and superior speed and stick work kept them in control most of the time. Hockey Summary DARTMOUTH HARVARD Riley, J. lw Sears Merriam c Key Riley, W. rw McKean Campbell ld Washburn Thayer rd Greeley Desmond g Yetman...
...explaining career opportunities in the Foreign Service, I presented a number of considerations which interested students should weight pro and con in deciding whether they are fitted for, and would enjoy, a life in the Foreign Service. They must consider whether by native intelligence, intellectual equipment, character, and personality qualifications they stand a good chance in the keenly competitive, nation-wide examinations... They should not entertain fanciful illusions about a life generally characterized by gaiety, excitement, and intrigue. These elements may develop in the life of a Foreign Service officer, but they are only occasional highlights in a career...
...first-run dates are being dished out. Thus it often is difficult to find films free from the deluge of critical acclaim or dismay that the New York papers and the weekly magazines unloose. Such a case is the one at hand, for the sheaves of outpourings, pro and con, in regard to this Danny Kaye extravaganza make it rather difficult to uncover anything...