Word: imperiale
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There are some 30,000 professional flutists in the U.S., and nobody knows how many amateurs. Their profusion is due in part to the fact that the flute is the easiest of all wind instruments to play, and in part to the untiring evangelism of the Flute Club's...
Chilled by Italy's rains, the Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Montgomery last week asked London for waterproofed pants and jacket. The package was made up, sent. Its custodian: the Bishop of Southwark (pronounced suth'-erk), beginning a tour of military stations. But ahead went a...
About 2,205 B.C. the great Yu, half-mythical founder of the Hsia dynasty, melted metals from the nine provinces of his empire into nine tings to symbolize unity. To succeeding dynasties, they continued to represent imperial sovereignty.
In the bleak Nanking headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army, thin, razor-keen General Shunroku Hata was brightly confident. He boasted: "As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops." The year: 1939.
It was an earnest of what would happen to other lands retaken from Japan according to the Cairo plan; at least some of them would be returned without question to their former imperial owners.