Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August. By week's end the Generalissimo had been at least half successful. The Rightists had reached the Ebro River bank along an eight-mile stretch formerly held by their enemy and the Leftist holdings had been reduced to a tiny circle around the main bridgehead at Mora de Ebro...
...end of the 19th Century grave charges of maladministration were made against the company's rule. Arab slavers had been largely suppressed, it was admitted, but cannibalism was practiced, natives were forced into labor and the association had a strangle grip on all trade. Various commissions of inquiry failed to humanize the company's rule and finally in 1908 the Belgian Government formally took over the Congo's administration...
...have found the peace I have been looking for." Dean Neidlinger, satisfied there was "no monkey business" about Gates's trip to the farm, departed announcing that Gates was still free to return to Dartmouth. At length, after four days of wrestling with what by week's end had become the most publicized young conscience in any U. S. college, Harrington Gates returned. Dean Neidlinger recorded his absence as "excused," said that Dartmouth was "content with his decision to give up football...
...sniffed: "I should say the piece was 19th-Century German Romantic." Confused Bostonians, looking everywhere but under the seats for the romanticism, found a will o' the wisp clue in their program notes, where Composer Krenek's own words told them: "At the end of the piece the piano seems to remove all traces of solidity, the orchestra reverts to the indistinct sounds of the high violins which introduced the work . . . leading the music back to the remoteness whence it came...
...papers the past week, discovered the following innovations for the coming season: 1) there are only seven clubs in the National Hockey League (the Montreal Maroons folded); 2) there are no longer two divisions in the league; 3) the team that wins the most games at season's end will be awarded the National Hockey League championship without more ado, but the "world championship" will be awarded as heretofore to the winner of the post-season Stanley Cup play-offs-a complicated round robin in which six of the seven teams will compete...