Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trofim Lysenko is an egregiously indestructible plant breeder from the Ukrainian black-earth belt who long ago won world notoriety, scientific contempt and Stalinist favor with his attempt to rewrite nature to suit Marx. A weird cross between sinister charlatan and seedy fanatic. Lysenko used his political influence, based on Stalin's favor, to wreak ruthless vengeance on his critics, the scholars who had made genetics-until his rise-the pride of Russian science...
Alabaster & Bronze. In Madrid the huge granite blocks were cut and then sent 28 miles northwest by truck to the Valley. On top of a rocky crest, a great white cross reached 500 ft. into the air. From artists' studios and artisans' workshops came statues of alabaster, doors of bronze, choir benches with medieval-style carvings, a main gate that alone cost $62,000. In 1956 the Valley was all but finished, but by that time it had begun to cause the Generalissimo considerable embarrassment...
...first tourist to the balmy island of Cuba, went ashore Oct. 28, 1492, sword in one hand, cross in the other, saying: "The most beautiful land human eyes have ever beheld." The gentle Siboney Indians left their hammocks and met Christopher Columbus, crying: "Peace, we are friends." A quarter of a century after Columbus' first voyage to the New World, Cuba's gold and precious woods adorned Madrid, and many Indians had died of overwork and by their own hands. Blackbirders slid into Havana harbor with Negro slaves, and on their wretched backs rose an elegant, sugar-based...
Jack Downing, Rich Castellana, Harry Rich, and Don Kirkland gave the Crimson its only first of any kind during the meet with a victory in the freshman mile relay. The Yardlings led Holy Cross to the tape by 20 yards in the good time...
Bender explained that he has "a basic objection to something like Dudley House, which is a group of students sequestered on the basis of geography and financial need, unlike the careful cross-section in each residential House." Building a new center, he indicated, would do nothing to solve this problem...