Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jointly with Premier Molotov (cautious Stalin never takes sole responsibility), 125 managers of State cattle ranches were dismissed and 35 of them indicted for criminal mismanagement (punishable by shooting). The decree, postulating that many of Russia's present breeding ranches are too large, ordered them split up by the creation of 102 new ranches, menaced with dire threats ranch managers who have ignored previous orders to breed on a strict cost accounting basis...
...Germany. "Goethe was the greatest poet of all time!" declared President Peterson. "He was the forerunner of Charles Darwin in evolution theory; he was the forerunner of General Goethals in foreseeing the construction of the Panama Canal; and he was the forerunner of Prince von Bismarck in visualizing the creation of a united Germany...
...flag is the creation of Eugene duBois '33, a resident of the House, and if it is accepted, will probably be carried on all the boats of the House in their subsequent victories or defeats. This is the first time that the idea of an ensign has been proposed in any of the Houses. The ferry is of the side-wheeler variety...
...Angels opened the triptych, disclosed three panels rudely painted to suggest a ship docked in the harbor of Alexandria, a temple doorway in Jerusalem, a grotto in a desert beyond the River Jordan. Over the half-hidden orchestra, Composer Respighi benignly presided while wanton Mary of Egypt, his latest creation, flaunted her trade on the water front, repented and finally crawled, a sainted harridan, into a grave dug by a lion in the middle of the desert...
...Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village of his own creation, takes sunbaths in a breechcloth on an Elizabethan tower. He soon figures out who must have committed the murder, but he has a long way to go to get enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder in South America keep...