Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riggs was expected to win one singles match last week-most likely against Quist, whom he had defeated in the Davis Cup Challenge Round last year. Beyond this lonely hope, few tennis experts expected much from the U. S. team. But at the end of the first day's matches, the experts realized that they had sold Riggs and Parker short...
...year for full-time services. All physicians remaining in private practice, and making more than their "normal" peacetime income will be required to place their surplus profits in a pool, to be divided among Army and Navy doctors at the war's end. Medical care for the 1,000,000 school children who were evacuated from large cities and compensation for victims of air raids will be paid by the Government...
LASISIRE - "There is no such thing as 'a war to end all. wars.' The last war has taught us that there can be no solution to warfare through bloodshed. Unselfishness is all that is necessary to maintain peace...
Discoveries like this are recurrent mysteries in the art world. Often enough they end in disappointment. What made Carlo Noya's picture sensational is that, although there are many Leonardo drawings, experts concede only 13 (some only four) da Vinci paintings to exist. The British Museum has one of the best of numerous pen studies for a Madonna with the Cat. In Britain, too, is the one man whom Italian scholars need to consult before pronouncing their find authentic, Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark, director of the National Gallery since...
...whanging out this Brobdingnagian music was a prim, bald-headed carillonneur named Kamiel Lefre, No. 1 bellwhanger of the U. S. carillonneur of the Riverside Church and president of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs. Hard at work inside a little wooden booth at one end of the platform, through a glass window he could be seen pulling, slapping and stamping at the levers and pedals of the most complicated piece of bell-ringing machinery in the U. S. When he had boomed his last bong, Carillonneur Lefre emerged from his booth in a dignified sweat, took off his gloves...