Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million or so years, more or less, of man's prehistory from the time of his apelike ancestors, we can now confidently count on discovering his points of origin, the evolution of his physical self, the upgrowth of his cultures, the relative importance of independent invention or of diffusion, and the direction and extent of his movements over the globe." he said...
...Geneva the wife of Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Wartime German Ambassador to the U. S., revealed that he was so broken up by the death last march of Colonel E. M. House, one-time confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson, that he has been ill ever since...
Boston boys applying for the instruction are asked about their chief interests, and are assigned to tutors working in these fields. All the work is informal, in the university students' rooms. The studies do not count toward college degrees, but are intended to assist the tutees in business, or in keeping up school work until they can go to college...
...that many Germans disliked the cruelties of their Government, but were afraid to protest them. Having a hard time to provide enough bread to go round, Führer Hitler was being driven to give the German people another diverting circus. The Nazi controlled press, jumping the rope at the count of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, shrieked insults at real and imagined enemies. And the pace of the German dictatorship quickened as more & more guns rolled from factories and little more butter was produced...
...boogie-woogie (played by Meade "Lux" Lewis and others) was fairly well in the groove but the jungle music (represented by African phonograph recordings) sounded as irrelevant as a mass by Palestrina. Up the evolutionary ladder from the jungle to the boogie leaped such big-league Negro swingsters as Count Basic and Sidney Béchet...