Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young (12) for a British driving license, he got special permission to roar around Brooklands racing track all by himself. Back in Iraq, he bought one flashy car after another-among others a supercharged, 150-horsepower Auburn with three-inch royal crowns on its doors, a Mercedes done in phosphorescent paint. Before long his craving for speed got him into the air, where he loved to stunt. He took delivery last month on a 200-m.p.h. British plane...
...Mosul, an oil centre and political hotspot 260 miles up the Tigris from Bagdad, natives were told by agitators that the British had done away with their King. At high noon, an angry mob of Iraqi rushed the city's British Consulate, dragged out 52-year-old Consul George E.A.C. Monck-Mason, a trim, clipped civil servant whose 30-year consular career had taken him to most Near East trouble spots. Then they set fire to the building, and killed George Monck-Mason in the slow, brutal way in which Oriental mobs have for centuries disposed of those they...
...avenge the death of his wife and her mother at the hands of the Gestapo." He produced a letter addressed to the Reich's Colonial Organization which declared that Patagonia is "nobody's land and we can annex it," and which told exactly how it could done. The signatures on the letter were identified as those of a German Embassy secretary and Nazi Leader Alfred Müller. Result: police arrested Leader Müller, raided Nazi Party offices. The German Chargė d'Affaires protested that the letter was a "gross forgery," and Argentine Foreign Minister...
...Cushing would retire to the dressing room, dictate all his surgical notes, make his own sketches for hospital records. In his 20 years at Harvard, Dr. Cushing collected some 2,000 brain tumors, which he stored in bottles. Many of these are pituitary tumors, for Dr. Cushing has done pioneer work in diseases of this master gland. These specimens, with their corresponding case histories, form the most remarkable neurological collection in the world...
...British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...