Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associations, a nonpolitical, nonsectarian, decidedly conservative organization, this year accepted Brazil's invitation to hold its biennial conference (from August 6 to 11) in Rio de Janeiro. Few weeks ago, after some Federation members had already started to roll down to Rio, Brazil's Government (in which General Goes Monteiro's Army is potent) abruptly called the meeting...
Aids to the general clack of reminiscence were three passengers who had crossed on the Mauretania's, maiden voyage in 1907: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Middlemass, of Glasgow, Little Businessman Cyrus Morfey, of Herefordshire. All three said they liked the new ship fine...
...Blame the Devil. Dr. Conklin's biological range is wide. His fattest book is on the general subject of Heredity & Environment. This has been translated into French, Russian and Japanese. The Russians, like Dr. Morgan, had a joke at his expense: since formal genetics is a touchy subject in Soviet ideology (TIME, June 26), the Russians deleted page after page that did not suit the party line, then sent him a complimentary copy of his own book, mutilated as well as pirated...
...education in general he cracks: "To be fit for life in society, every child, as well as every dog, must be housebroken...
Parent of the Wheeling Steelmakers idea was John L. ("Pop") Grimes, general advertising manager of the corporation, who started a quartette over Wheeling's WWVA...