Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show of courtesy was made-the duration of which would doubtless match the duration of the revolt. Havana regarded Machado's triumph sourly. There were no cheers, there were no crowds. General Menocal stepped ashore first, gaunt, his beard (which makes him look so much like Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt) untrimmed. his clothes torn and soiled. Yet he held his shoulders square, marched with head high past the clicking cameras. Fat old Carlos Mendieta. one eye swollen shut, slumped behind him, a dirty yellow slicker drooping from his shoulders, a shapeless felt hat squashed on his head. Just...
Fire destroyed the luxurious 23-room Manhattan apartment of President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. It was closed for the summer while Mr. Kelley & family were in Butte, Mont. Strange sulphurous fumes overcame seven firemen. Estimated loss...
...member of the giraffe family and denizen only of Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. Okapi have been captured, but never photographed in their native environment, which is one of the most dense jungles known to man. Distinctive feature of the okapi is its striped hindquarters.* Therefore when Explorer Cornelius P. Bezuidenhout brought back from the Ituri section closeup pictures of the jungle okapi, Illustrated London News not only featured his photographs and ran a long story by him, but used a closeup rear-view of a female okapi as its full-page frontispiece last fortnight...
...cared for in special classes; 675,000 present behavior problems, but only 10,000 are in special schools, 50,000 are partly blind, only 5,000 are provided for. There are but 18,coo deaf or partly deaf children attended to out of a total 3,000,000. (Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia schools...
...Reno, Cornelius Vanderbilt...