Word: ests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just a moment. He derives his power not only from being President of the Comite but as one of the principal owners of his own iron and steel concerns. Beneath him and his administrative board of the Comite there spread out six regional Committees: the Lorie Nord. I'Est, Miniere d'Alsace-Lorraine, Forges de Lorraine, and Champagne. The total tonnage that the members of the Comite produce in France in a typical year is, for pig iron some the 10,000,000 tons and for steel, some 9.500,000 tons...
Scoring: first half, Halversen (D), 3:40; Halversen (D), 24:00 Halversen (D), 25:00: second half, McMullen (D), 4:16; England, 8.30: Lessig, 9:30; est (D), 19:15; Allen (D), 27:50; total, Harvard 3, Dartmouth 6. Penalties: Rosenburg (E), Bosworth, England, Warwick, Fields. Time: 15 minute quarters, Referee: McDaniel (Johns Hopkins...
...technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very much like primitive people. They make me feel uncomfortable. 'La bêtise n'est pas mon fort...
...that it was "Monsieur de Paris," traditional name for France's executioner, otherwise Anatole Joseph Deibler, 76.* Immediately another closed van rattled into the square and out jumped the assistant executioners, a priest, and a scowling, square-jawed man in shirtsleeves. Again the whisper went round: "C'est lui! C'est Sarret!" Georges Alexander Sarrejani, alias Sarret, was a Trieste-born Greek who three years ago succeeded the late infamous Henri Desire Landru as France's most spectacular murderer when a M. Poncel returned from a vacation in Italy to his villa near Marseilles. M. Poncel...
...owned Canadian National*) and only eleven commercial banks. But solemn Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett has broad powers under The Emergency Relief Act. C. P. R.'s request was granted after it had pledged with the Government $100,000,000 face value of senior securities on which inter- est was being earned even last year. To let C. P. R. go to the wall for lack of a guarantee would have been unthinkable. C. P. R. is not only a $1.000.000.000 railroad but also a Dominion tradition which peopled the prairies. It operates hotels, steamships, telegraph lines...