Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes resistance to Communist pressure would be as direct and ruthless as that at Maragha in Persia, where four men accused as leaders of the Communist-inspired revolt in Azerbaijan province were hanged (see cut) as examples to others who might be tempted to follow the Russian line...
...when he was 23, Lachaise met the girl who inspired (though she did not model for) his massive idealizations of womanhood. To follow Isabel to the U.S., Lachaise gave up his sombrero, his cape, his wide trousers caught at the ankle, flowing black tie, cane, long hair, and his studies at Paris' Beaux Arts school. He carved belt buckles, buttons and saddles for Civil War monuments in Boston, later apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Manhattan Sculptor Paul Manship. After seven years' labor, Lachaise was a slick enough portraitist and decorative sculptor to live...
...left his church in 1536 to join Grebel's movement. Then the group were called Anabaptists because of their belief in the necessity of adult baptism. Like the Quakers 150-odd years later, they eschewed a paid priesthood and the use of force, did their best to follow literally the precepts of Jesus, patterned their lives on those of the early Christians. In those days, even more than now, such behavior was not only unconventional but dangerous...
...Hyman manual leaves to specialists major surgery and the treatment of complicated ailments. But it provides the family doctor with a meticulously illustrated guide for diagnosing and coordinating treatments for almost every human ill. Conveniently indexed so that a doctor can start with symptoms and follow through to the latest approved treatment, it is a shrewd mixture of modern science and common sense...
Professor Woodworth's talks will follow after the last lecture on "The Unsolved Problems of Astronomy," a series organized by Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory. Applications for tickets to the Lowell Institute Lectures is made by mail to the Curator at the Boston Public Library two days before the beginning of each course...