Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goldey (junior) College at Wilmington, Del. announced a course for "aerial secretaries," i.e., flying stenographers...
Died. Alexis Felix du Pont, 69, shy director and onetime vice president (1919-46) of the Du Pont munitions and chemical empire; of a heart ailment; in Rehoboth Beach, Del. He entered the family business in 1900, played a major role in the Senate's noisy 1934 investigation of the company's war profits...
...Tristan da Cunha. 2. The Galapagos Islands. 3. The Falkland Islands. 4. The Straits of Magellan. 5. Tierra del Fuego...
...ceremonial week for art-loving Florentines. On the very same day that the city honored its most distinguished foreign citizen (see above), fishwives, shopgirls, nuns, monks and scholars jammed the Piazza del Duomo. They had come to see the reinstallation of the famed Baptistery doors of the cathedral. Sculptor Ghiberti's 15th Century doors, with their intricate panels, each like a separate, delicate canvas, for centuries had been the pride of Florence. Worthy of Paradise, Michelangelo had said, and all Florence had agreed...
Zealous students had tried to get rid of the offending words, but Rivera had simply painted them back in. Two days later some other zealot sneaked to the Del Prado Hotel, scraped out the words once more, and added three long scratches to Rivera's portrait of himself as a boy. At that, the government stepped in, boarded up the dining room with three thicknesses of heavy lumber, and assigned it a 24-hour police guard...