Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People. Mikolajczyk became the first peasant to be elected president of the Poznan Farming Association-an event that raised the provincial gentry's eyebrows. He also became a follower of Wincenty Witos, greatest of Polish peasant leaders. Grand, gruff old Witos watched his disciple with peasant skepticism. "Mikolajczyk is no peasant," he once growled. "He has neither the peasant's character, nor his sense of humor, nor his bad habits." But the peasants dissented. They kept voting for their Poznan farmer; in 1930 they sent him to the Sejm (Parliament) in Warsaw. When Witos was forced into exile...
Estin, in the number three spot, was the only one of the team to finish in the money in the slalom event, but the first day's totals put Harvard third, ahead of New Hampshire, which was supposed to give Dartmouth its only competition...
...probability for two identical bridge deals to occur in 18 deals, as described in your Nov. 12 issue, is grossly in error. . . . The chance for the event to occur as described is one in 350,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 instead of one in the unit 85 with 54 zeros...
...July 1944, I found myself gently eased out of Russia when the Soviets withdrew my press credentials after an argument with one of their more abusive censors. . . . Our own State Department, to whom the event had been fully reported, uttered not a squeak of protest...
...picture of spring, has two dates on it: 1917 (when he first painted it) and 1945, when he improved upon it. He calls it "a child's impression of nature ... a remembrance of coming home from school at noon and being awed by the sight of such an event...