Word: differently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia and Mannerheim started for home. Stories differ as to how he got there. One version says he wore his dress uniform and commandeered a train. Another that he disguised himself as a porter...
...White Terror. Accounts also differ as to the details of General Mannerheim's conduct in Finland's civil war, but the bold outlines are clear. When he reached Helsinki he found the city, and Finland, in chaos. Rioting had been going on since March. A Red Guard had sprung up in support of the Social Democrat Party, which had just lost its majority in the Diet. A White Guard was also being organized around officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim...
...Introductory Area Courses: The Council's idea of the components of liberal education does not differ essentially from that of the theory behind Harvard's distribution and concentration system. But the weakening of the distribution requirement has meant that the four courses for distribution are no longer the broadening influence they were intended...
Snake Eyes. Zoologist Gordon Lynn Walls, Wayne University College of Medicine : "The snakes are known to have originated from the lizards in a relatively recent geological period, but despite the closeness of relationship, the eyes of snakes differ so much in structure from those of lizards (including modern legless ones) that no one would suspect, from the eyes alone, that a snake is any more closely related to a lizard than a cat is to a frog...