Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ultra-Truculents. Exile to rot in Siberia was the sentence enforced, last week, upon the little known, ultra-truculent, blindly conservative group, formerly led in the Communist party by Comrade Sapronov. This stubborn band of heroes or madmen have braved threats of exile for years, and were the "opposition" when Trotsky was still "regular...
...Corp., with assets of $98,000,000, has 70,000 opulent acres in California. Reason for the merger: to expand the Texas Corp.'s operations in the Far East in order to compete more effectively against the Standard Oil Co. of New York and the Royal Dutch Shell group. R. C. Holmes is president of the Texas Corp.; Jacques Vinmont of the California Petroleum Corp...
...thoughtful now, walking in the weary pageant of a slow, travel-stained procession along a road through the country. Roughly 18 years later the story goes on again. This time it is a humble, yet triumphant continuity of miracles and splendid words; the pictures are those of a group of men talking in the dusk by the shore of a sea or walking together toward a city. At the centre of these pictures is the boy who stood in the temple; the face that was filled that day with exaltation has now become more sorrowful, more wise. For three years...
...course, in a play like "The 19th Hole", in which there are some jokes which are based on golf jargon, a group of ladies might fail at first to register on some things, but for the most part they usually catch on a few minutes later...
...Germans however are stricter and need a more definite tendency than mere unity of purpose. It is best not to speak of those nationalistic and militaristic groups that unite in hatred of France; it is this group, strong in sport and materialism, that looks with distrust upon any movement tending to ward the liberation of thought and spirit...