Word: givens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no doubt," editorialized Santiago's La Nation, "that yesterday's criminal act has given President IbaÑez a new popularity in the public mind, similar to a great extent to that occasioned for the Italian Premier after the various unsuccessful attacks against...
...tradesmen, locally patriotic, giving athletic bounties to local colleges, in one case, "out of impatience . . . with the meagre encouragement given to athletes at the local institution...
...late, peace-loving Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of the Reich who died last month (TIME, Oct. 14), was given a whole page to himself in the Illustrated London News, including pictures of his death mask, a photograph of his neatly dressed corpse in its coffin (the dead hands holding flowers) and a tribute saying that his death "was a great blow not only to Germany but to Europe as a whole...
...Francisco, an ovation given conductor Alfred Hertz had the flavor of farewell. Recently ("because of a declining interest on the part of the public") he announced this season as his last. Already Bruno Walter is mentioned as possible successor...
...Bishop Murray left a letter too. It said: "The reason that no bequests are made by me to agencies or persons other than my own immediate family is because during my entire income-earning existence I have consistently and continuously given one-fifth (20%) of my income from all sources to church, charity and collateral relatives...