Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tries the tightrope.") When he married at 23, Matisse was considered a rising young academician. Soon afterward, he ruined his reputation; he willfully destroyed a perfectly adequate still life he had just finished instead of sending it to his dealer. "It did not represent me," explained Matisse. "I count my emancipation from that...
...other contests yesterday, Adams shut out Winthrop in two games, and Leverett beat Dunster by a 2 to 1 count...
...that simple for Bob Maddux. He's in the market for good mid-field men. Every lacrosse team needs nine durable midfielders and Madux can only count up to six: Captain Hans Estin, Dave Abbot, Don Page, Don Louria, Bob Lang, and Austie Lyne. Between now and Saturday's scrimmage, with the Boston Lacrosse Club he hopes to unearth three more...
...social order," Czar Nicholas I (called "The Nightstick") in 1826 decided to create a new thing, a secret police which later came to be called the Okhrana (Guard). The inception of this dreadful institution took place in a scene of sentimental horror. When the Okhrana's first chief, Count Alexander Benckendorff, reported to the Czar for instructions, the monarch pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket and said: "Dry the tears of the oppressed. May your conscience and the conscience of your subordinates ever remain as stainless as this linen...
Died. George Noble, Count Plunkett, 96, Irish literary and art patron, and fiery fighter for a free Eire; in Dublin. The bush-bearded, pouch-eyed papal count, first Sinn Fein candidate to be elected to the Irish Parliament (in 1917), served the new republic as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919-21) and Fine Arts...