Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud Philadelphian applause testified that it was all perfectly natural. The opera, old Vienna's "grand operetta" Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Waltz King Johann Strauss, furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...artery, they prevent the flow of fresh, oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the limb; if they dam up a vein, they prevent the return of used blood, heavy with body poisons, to the heart. Without proper circulation of the blood to keep them alive, body tissues die, become gangrenous...
Last week he repeated the comment he made in 1939 after the Madras Conference: "If Christianity should die out in Europe and America, it exists in such vitality and propagating power in the younger churches of India, China, Japan and Africa, that sooner or later it would spread from those bases and re-establish itself among...
Bolivar started for the coast and exile. His letters became Timon-like. "I am resolved," he wrote before starting, "to die an exile in want and sorrow." He was ill and traveled slowly. He began to head his letters "from a deathbed, that is, a place of prophecy." He prophesied that if Latin Americans could not unite, they would "relapse into little tyrannies of all colors and races" until "devoured by all crimes and destroyed by chaos, we shall be reconquered by Europe." He did not think his warnings would do much good. "There have been three great fools...
...present policy, which is pregnant with trouble and unnecessary bitterness. It is bad enough that the U. S. Military system should allow Joe Louis to contribute $47,100 to an organization which refuses him permission to serve under it, though it allows the Negro equal opportunity to die (as many are dying in the Philippines today), and denies him the opportunity to serve as he chooses...