Word: cyrillic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home cooking is not entirely a lark for Tsar Boris and Tsaritsa loanna, most impoverished of European royalties. At all events it has proved a highly popular habit with their subjects. In Sofia again loanna went with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace...
...teamed with Lawson Little of San Francisco. Semifinalist in last year's National Amateur, Golfer Little is accustomed to playing in the world's far corners, having learned the game while his father was an army officer stationed in Tientsin. Opposing Little and Goodman were huge Cyril Tolley and Roger Wethered. That match was won on the first tee when Little stepped up to the ball and lined a drive 30 demoralizing yards farther than Wethered's. Long before the match ended 8 and 6 in favor of the U. S. pair, the solemn crowd of spectators...
...SHALL THE HOOLIGANS GOVERN LONDON? Meanwhile the leader of the London Labor Party, Herbert Morrison, was fighting the campaign of his life. When the votes were counted, Labor had swept whole boroughs from under the Tories, defeated such Tory front men as the Earl of Haddo and old Sir Cyril Cobb...
...civilian pilot named Gustave Le Moine last week took an airplane up from Yillacoublay Airfield, military airdrome near Paris. Two hours later he came down with a new world record for airplane altitude: 45,264 ft. (Old record: Capt. Cyril F. Uwins...
...cheers greeted Major Cyril F. Entwistle when he shouted, "It is necessary for us and other countries to tell Japan quite clearly that she must conform to western standards of living or her goods must be prohibited from entering other countries...