Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dining with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, the place where Kaiser Wilhelm II visited his cousin George V in 1910, Adenauer presented an $11,900 check to the fund for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral, which German bombers destroyed in a 1940 raid. After three glowing days Adenauer returned to Germany...
U.A. followed with such pictures as Moulin Rouge, Trapeze, Summertime, was willing to take chances that major studios balked at. When Mike Todd could get no backers for Around the World in 80 Days, U.A. rescued him with $2,000,000, arranged a further bank loan. To date, the picture...
U.A. could lose its shirt if it backed a long string of bad pictures. But Krim and Benjamin, whose U.A. holdings are worth $6,500,000, are protected by the fact that, in addition to owning a piece of the pictures, they get 32% of the gross rentals for distributing...
The heavyweight varsity crew, rowing the last race of the day in order to take advantage of falling wind, finished a length and three-quarters in front of a hard-rowing Syracuse boat. Even further behind were M.I.T. and B.U., in that order.
Despite damage done to their best shell by a rock thrown from the shore, the Freshmen borrowed another boat and gained an easy victory over their three opponents. Never pressed after the first half mile, they rowed at a low stroke, between 29 1/2 and 30 1/2. Syracuse, behind by...