Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl who has attracted universal attention and could just as easily count the sands on the seashore or the stars in the heavens as calculate the number of her admirers, is here in Nassau--and coming here she is home, for she is none other than Brenda Frazier, granddaughter of Lady Williams-Taylor...
...close was the voting yesterday that Speaker Christian A. Herter '15 took an unusual step in having himself recorded in favor of reconsideration. The repeal bill prevailed on a voice vote, failed on a standing count, 83-77, before a roll call was ordered...
...Government got to doing some extra heavy thinking about the growing pains of unemployment. And rightly, too-Wal's standing army (180,000 NUWMers) compared not unfavorably with Britain's Regular Army (about 220,000), and his potential army (2,039,026 unemployed according to latest count) was more than three times as big as Britain's total present army strength, Territorials, Reserves...
...modest chamber, in which the Pope could gaze upon a portrait of the longtime protectress of his health, St. Therese of Lisieux, gathered a hushed assemblage: lean, austere Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Camillo Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni, the Pope's protege and master of ceremonies, Count Franco Ratti, the Pope's nephew, Governor Camillo Serafini of Vatican City. The Pope's regular doctor, Dr. Aminta Milani, himself down with a high fever, left his sickbed to administer to the Pontiff a last, desperate injection of adrenalin...
...raised upon a velvet and gold catafalque, carried in a slow cortege to the Sistine Chapel. There, dwarfed by the surging figures of Michelangelo's vast Last Judgment, the Pope lay in state while dignitaries of the Church, diplomats. Crown Prince Umberto (for the Italian royal family) and Count Galeazzo Ciano (for Mussolini) paid homage. Next day the Pope's body was carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square, began filing past his bier. There began the novemdiali, nine days of papal funeral rites...