Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measles; and we have measles to spare. Woe therefore to the stiff-necked and unmerciful! We shall make Harvard the abomination of desolation, laid low with measles. Look you to it! James LeB. Boyle, II, '36 Thomas G. Ratcliffe '35 J. H. Davidson 2G.B. T. E. Naughten '34 M. deC. Crawford '37 S. S. Taft '34 Irving Greenblatt '36 C. A. Wirtz 2L. R. E. Stevens 1G.B. Francis K. Cole '35 B. T. MacIlveen...
...francs ($39,151,000). Air: 980,000,000 francs ($64,484,000) which will be spent for "quality rather than quantity" in fighting planes. Explained the Foreign Office: "Germany is rearming." Germany. The League of Nations made public an official memorandum from Germany to France, dated Dec. 18, 1933 in which Germany disclosed her intention to "rearm in moderation." Italy. The Glornale d'ltalia hinted at construction of a 25,000-ton ship to match France's 26,500-ton Dunkerque now in construction. Japan. Minister of the Navy Mineo Osumi announced that passage of the Naval bill...
...Dec. 16, 1916, Prince Felix Youssoupov, a delicate young man who had inherited a fortune estimated at $300,000,000, invited Rasputin to his palace after dinner to meet some women. Rasputin went. Three days later his body, badly battered about the head and bearing eleven bullet wounds, was found under the ice of the Neva...
...plot to murder Rasputin originated in a Guards regiment in which Prince Youssoupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri were serving. They enlisted the aid of Vladimir Purishkevitch, a member of the Duma. When lecherous Rasputin reached the Youssoupov palace on the night of Dec. 16, servants were kept at the head of the stairs, talking, playing the phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide...
...fairness to the Post it must be stated that since it passed under its present management on June 12, 1933, its circulation has increased 37% (to 71,000) and its increase in advertising lineage for the six months, ended Dec. 31, 1933, was third largest for the entire country...