Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benes told the nation. "I am talking to all of you-Czechs, Slovaks, Germans and all other nationalities . . . I believe the German people, as well as the Czechs, Slovaks and all others, desire to work together in quiet. . . . I have always been an optimist and my optimism today is greater than ever. I have an unshakable faith in the State, in its health, in its power, in its ability to withstand pressure, in its splendid army and in the unshakable spirit of the whole people. . . . I believe that on the basis of new proposals the Government will come to terms...
When John Evelyn in 1641 thus recorded the flourishing artistic life of Holland, Jan Vermeer of Delft, who was to become the most finished realist of the Dutch School, was just nine years old. Last fortnight, visitors at a far greater fair-Queen Wilhelmina's Jubilee (TIME, Sept. 12)-found Rotterdam again furnished with pictures, and the greatest attraction of all was a painting by Jan Vermeer. Displayed among 450 Netherlands-owned masterpieces at the Boymans Museum, Christ at Emmaus (see cut) is no drollery but one of the three religious paintings ascribed to the artist. To Netherlanders...
...Nazi Party, for the better ordering of their emotions, a "Theme." In 1933 the first Parteitag Theme was VICTORY. Next year it was WILL, then FREEDOM, next HONOR and last year LABOR. This week the Theme for Herr Hitler, Frau Ludendorff and all other Germans is GROSSDEUTCHER REICH (Greater Germany...
Many of these Austrian veterans, although they are Italian subjects today, have been loudly agitating for the merging of Italian Tyrol with Greater Germany (TIME, June 13). Italians hope they will now lap up their Fascist gravy quietly and stop crying for Nazification...
After the first round, however, the greater part of the gallery of 300 trudged around after lanky, woolly-topped Howard Wheeler of Atlanta-watched him tee up on the edge of a match folder, shuffle along the fairways in a Stepin Fetchit gait, plop down on the greens while waiting his turn to putt. A onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With...