Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched a torchlight parade of 300,000 Berliners (complete with fireworks, goose step and Prussian military marches), inspected the Communist-trained "people's police." Berliners compared the show to the one the Nazis staged when Hitler seized power in 1933. Two days after the fireworks came the greatest honor of all: a personal letter from Joseph Stalin...
...last week received the news of the honor conferred on him with hardly a flick of his huge, bushy white eyebrows. He announced he would go to Oslo in December to receive his Nobel Prize medal, diploma and check; a true Scotsman, he noted that the prize money (to be used "for peace") would be only $21,900, almost $10,000 less than what it would have been before devaluation...
...bewildering string of conquests. His mistresses included prostitutes, actresses, a singer-writer from Sandusky, Ohio named Blanche Roosevelt, a French woman whose husband was a diplomat in Rumania and for whom (perhaps to show his gratitude) De Maupassant tried to obtain the coveted ribbon of the Legion of Honor, and a Polish noblewoman...
...afternoon the visitors will be guests of honor at a reception and tea at the home of Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., president of M.I.T, where they will meet Hindu students of Greater Boston...
...Cross Professorship is named in honor of the late Professor Samuel H. Cross '12, who was for many hears prior to his death in 1946 a leading American authority on the languages and cultures of Eastern Europe...