Word: dozens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life in The Netherlands Indies is abundant. Dutch colonials grow rich on oil and rubber, fat on Bols gin and rijsttafel ("rice-table," a huge meal which requires a dozen natives to serve). Their activities at clubs are so serious as to be nearer worship than relaxation. The social hierarchy is solid and rigid as a marble staircase. After a party at the Harmonic Club in Batavia, Java, chauffeurs must line cars up according to their masters' standing, so that 20,000-guilders-a-year may drive off before 15,000-guilders-a-year...
...fellow at the head who won't wince at the rattle of a machine gun. The rabble must be given a good fright. He mustn't be brainy. . . . I would rather have a stupid, vain jackass who can give the Reds a juicy answer . . . than a dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women. . . ." They study the man at the other table, then call out to him: "HITLER! HITLER! . . ." Such was the opening this week of a new propaganda serial staged...
...Preminger) who-to go easy on him-steals, lies, blackmails, double-crosses and is all ready for murder. It requires, indeed, a whole act to take inventory of his villainies and when, at the end of the act, he is found dead, practically everybody in the cast has a dozen splendid reasons for being glad...
...Sunday, in St. Peter's, Pius XII gave practical proof of his views on racism. He consecrated a dozen white, black, yellow and brown bishops and vicars apostolic,* for services in Africa and the Orient. One vicar apostolic, Monsignor Joseph Kiwanuka of Uganda, was the Church's first consecrated Negro since 1875 (when a Negro was bishop of Portland, Me.). The others: a Chinese, a Madagascarian, an Indian, two Americans, six Europeans...
Meanwhile London's universities were in even sadder case. The Government ordered the unwilling University of London out of town, dispersed its various colleges and departments to about a dozen places. One university professor refused to be driven. To his workshop, the Galton laboratory, established by famed Geneticist Sir Francis Galton, marched bearded, burly Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher with two women assistants. When guards stopped the assistants, Professor Fisher used his fists, succeeded in storming his own laboratory. There he patched up his party's wounds, went grimly to work...