Word: dead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claimed a complete victory. Official Hungarian statements said that the railroad was captured, eleven Slovak planes had been brought down and 17 destroyed on the ground; that the only Hungarian loss was the capture of two men who had accidentally taken a wrong road. Slovak dispatches listed 23 Hungarian dead and 55 wounded. German communiques insisted the whole thing was just a border incident...
...into Kiangsi. Objective of the new drive was Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. A city of 500,000, Nanchang is a key point on the Chekiang-Hunan railway, China's last line of supply from the east coast. In two days, according to Japanese reports, 1,100 Chinese lay dead and 6,500 were captured. In seven days the offensive banged its way into Nanchang...
There were five Sheshonks who ruled Egypt during the 22nd Dynasty, founded about 950 B.C. If this long-dead king is the first of the Sheshonks-which further exploration may show him to be-then he is the same as the conquering, rapacious "Shishak" referred to in I Kings 14: 25-26: And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away...
...humorous accomplishments: 14 small, irresistible figures carved in mahogany, walnut, orange, pear and apple wood. He began doing them three years ago when he married and moved out to live in the country in Sherman, Conn. He and his brother, Henry Anton Steig, pruned their fruit trees, stacked the dead wood in a shed. One day William picked up a chunk and whittled it. Thereafter all male carvings were known in the family as Jason, female carvings as Tessie...
...National Academy of Design, where he went for two-and-a-half years when young, purely to stall off a career, Artist Steig got all his fun playing football in the back yard. The dead hand of the academy certainly guided none of his carving. Longest job was the woeful Guitarist-two weeks; shortest was the Sequinned Lady-two days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week...