Word: enigmas
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America has not yet completely conceded to the Soviet Republic her place in Europe as object of wonder and condemnation. The strange civilization of the New World, barbarous in its extreme mechanical advancement as well as in its primitivism, is still something of an enigma to the French. Recently a symposium in the Paris Figaro has endeavored to find what the attitude of the European public is on certain aspects of Yankee civilization and ascertain what should be done about...
...first backfield enigma which the Southerners will be forced to solve will be made up of Huguley, Mays, Crickard, and Schereschewsky. Huguley, veteran footballer, who started his career as a halfback and who has been converted into a signal caller, will take Wood's place at quarterback, and his performance this afternoon will give a good chance for a comparison with that of the regular team general...
Paradoxically, Yen's resignation, his evacuation of Peking were not decisive, rather the reverse. The old city's new master is a human enigma: Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, War Lord of Manchuria, from which his wellarmed, well-fed troops arrived by the thousand in swiftly chuffing freight trains...
...return of Carol to the throne of Rumania is sure to affect more than the internal situation in that country. The new king, while something of an enigma to political students, is known to have very definite ideas about international affairs. The exact nature or import of these ideas is a question which will occupy the attention of more than one European foreign secretary until such time as some actual portents are visible...
...marked man who never in his life found satisfaction save in music, who died shaking his fist at the unknown. Other Beethoven biographers have presumably clung more closely to reliable, documentary sources but honest laymen will like the Chotzinoff version. It attempts, at least, to solve the haloed Beethoven enigma, paints him as man rather than Titan...