Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point is that Harpo and Chico are brothers but they are both strangers to me. And, as for Sam Marx of M-G-M who reluctantly confesses to being their cousin-well, he's slightly mistaken. The fact of the matter is, he happens to be their joint child by a former marriage...
...Received a recommendation from the joint committee headed by Virginia's Harry Byrd that the federal payroll be reduced by 2,000,000 people from its V-J day peak...
Cheng explained that Premier T. V. Soong, during his negotiations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the Sino-Soviet Treaty of last August, had asked that the Fushun Combine be excluded from joint ownership provisions; Stalin had agreed. What did Cheng intend to do about the Russians living in the Combine's Yamato Hotel and working in its main offices? "I'll just ignore them," said Cheng. "Fushun's Mayor Yung Ning Lou has instructed 22,000 Japanese workers not to take orders from the Russians, but only from me. In the future, the Russians...
Cheng's challenge was promptly conveyed to Yuri Mikhailovich Zezukevich, the Russians' acting director of the Combine, and his assistant, multilingual George Chneider. Countered Chneider: "Our presence is not only admitted and approved by both Russia and China, but ordered. I have been informed that a joint commission in Harbin is even now discussing the future of Fushun. Until they reach a decision, the Combine continues to belong to the Sino-Soviet Changchun Railroad. Surely we do not intend just to sit around and drink tea. Maybe it is a Chinese custom to drink tea in the office...
P.R.B. stood for the "PreRaphaelite Brotherhood." The original Brothers were three Englishmen out of joint with their early Victorian times: William Holman Hunt (21), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (20), John Everett Millais (19). They hoped to recapture the spiritual vigor and simplicity of 14th-and 15th-Century Italian art, and they desired to practice Ruskin's thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master...