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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great hazard of construction labor is its uncertainty, but Burke claimed that as a general rule the undergraduate could count on any road project costing over $250,000 or any building over $800,000 lasting at least ten weeks...
...addition, students in the program take six half courses in Military Science and Tactics, which combine with the two courses outside the field, to complete ROTC course requirements. All of the courses count toward the 16 1/2 necessary for graduation...
Even before Pinza got out of the army at 27, he won a chance to sing the Count des Grieux in Manon in Rome. After that, his career picked up a dizzying momentum. Toscanini invited him to sing at La Scala, where he scored such a hit in Boito's Nerone that in 1926 Metropolitan Opera Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed...
Historically, the Roman Catholic Church is identified with nationalism in Poland as it is in few other countries; Poland became Catholic to avoid being gobbled up. When the pagan Polish ruler Mieszko I was attacked A.D. 963 by Saxon Warlord Count Wichman, Mieszko cannily guessed that this early German Drang nach Osten would disguise itself as a Christian missionary enterprise. To undercut this excuse, he married a Bohemian Catholic princess, took himself and country to the Church of Rome in 966. The office of primate, which in many countries degenerated into a mere courtesy title, remained in Poland...
Sense of Place. Louise's ride on the carrousel was nearly over. Her oldest son. Willie, was killed in a riding accident at his French chateau. Daughter Eva married an Italian count who proved to be a blackmailer. And on a summer evening in 1902, Louise sat by John Mackay's bedside and watched as he died of pneumonia...