Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasants have resisted this year to the extent of sowing only 35,463,792 acres up to last week whereas the State had ordered them to sow by then 48,705,881 acres. Thus far, according to Izvestia, 17% of the total sowing scheduled for this spring has been done. Thus, despite all censorship, the main fact came out that Dictator Stalin, having suddenly realized how much trouble is up, has leaped in with concessions which he hopes will persuade the peasantry to start sowing seed full blast this spring, before it is too late...
Florencio Molina Campos never had a drawing lesson and he swears he couldn't draw a straight line if his life depended on it. In a style which fairly often succeeds in being comic, epic and pastoral at the same time, he has done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative...
BEETHOVEN: AH, PERFIDO! (Philadelphia Orchestra with Kirsten Flagstad; Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 4 parts). Today's No. 1 operatic voice is more perfectly suited to Wagnerian declamation, but the recording engineers have done magnificently...
Summarizing the work which has been done at Phillips Brooks House this year, Daughaday stressed the need for students to continue their social service and philanthropic work after graduation...
Concluding that "the foundation as a social instrument has justified itself," Keppel stated no one could write a comprehensive history of the United States today without generous reference to the work done in medicine, education and social service under the auspices of American foundations...