Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubbornly, insistently President Alcala Zamora of newly Republican Spain has pressed Pope Pius XI to withdraw Spain's die-hard Royalist Primate. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo (TIME, June 29). In Vatican City last week this long, silent diplomatic struggle ended with a decorous item in Osservatore Romano, Papal daily...
...Take my advice, my sister, and go back to the Emperor to beg his forgiveness for your lack of common sense. If you do not, you must surely die of shame and be reviled by all right-thinking persons...
...Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...
...share," remarked Professor Albert Einstein to a Berlin society audience last week. For two hours he entertained with learned explanations of such familiar phenomena as why tea-leaves gather in the centre of the cup, why airplanes fly. "Why does the wind die down at sunset, with the sailor left helpless out in the middle of the water?" said he. "This is a serious matter. I was once left with a young lady alone in a boat until two o'clock in the morning...
Cried Laborer Hanna: "I will not let them take Helen away. I would rather die first. She should be at home helping her mother with the children. There is nothing the matter with Helen. She is a good girl. Maybe she did take something, but if she would we would give it back. There is nothing the matter with my family. Maybe the kids don't mind their mother as they should...