Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchy with the Tsar of Russia as its Grand Duke, and as a young man Baron Mannerheim fought as a Tsarist officer in the Russo-Japanese war, later was a member of Tsar Nicholas II's personal retinue. His continued prominence in Finland is the measure of its firm anti-Bolshevism. In August of this year Baron Mannerheim attended the luncheon given by Governor of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti for vacationing U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. whose "purely social" visit to Helsinki included a tour of Finnish cooperative stores and modernistic workmen...
With the prospect of almost nothing to do anyhow, the Foreign Office almost unanimously struck. The Cabinet was not impressed. Most of the diplomatic corps, including Ambassadors in London and Washington, protested. The Cabinet held firm. And so, last week, the 113 dissidents handed in their resignations...
...from the Old Testament are reminiscent of the zealous poetry found in his "Prophetic Books." The engravings, especially one called "The Fire Of God Is Fallen From Heaven," contain tortuous, Signorelli-like figures which show the artist's fanatical insight when dealing with the Scriptures. Blake's line is firm and decisive, expressing his sincere and dynamic mysticism...
Henry C. Clark '11, of Prides Crossing, was reelected Secretary of the Association, while G. Sterer Baldwin '21, of Boston, a member of the firm of Burr, Gannett and Company, bankers, was reelected Treasurer...
Richard C. Curtis '16, of Boston, lawyer, member of the firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart, a member of the Committee to Nominate Overseers, Directors and Members of the Harvard Fund Council, was named Chairman of this committee, to serve for three years, are Robert E. Goodwin '01, of Boston, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hear; Dr. William B. Parsons '10, of New York, surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; and John E. Toulmin '25, of Boston, Vice-President of the First National Bank of Boston...