Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the family of the great Prince Potemkin, adviser to and lover of Catherine the Great, in Tsarist days Vice Commissar Potemkin was a professor of mathematics, later went into the diplomatic service. As Ambassador to Italy he became known for his knowledge of Roman antiquities and in France he helped negotiate the French-Soviet mutual aid pact. He is tall, distinguished in appearance, a good linguist. Colonel Beck welcomed the Vice Commissar, and Comrade Potemkin, according to the Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some...
...large extent the tentative, day-to-day diplomacy of the anti-fascist powers is attributable to the fact that the statesmen of the "Peace Front" have been slow to find conclusive answers to these questions. But facts are known, and the basic facts go back to the days before the last war. The Nazi economy has merely given a new twist to these basic facts of Germany's 70-year-old economic history...
...dispose of the gains from 60 years of grubbing by one of the cagiest father-son money-making teams in U. S. history. A bachelor, Henry Putnam Jr. consulted no one, cocked his feet on his old desk, wrote a will. Last year he died. Last week it became known that after specific bequests to hospitals and other charities, he left the bulk of his estate, $8,000,000, to four female cousins, all over 70; that, although he was no college man, he had provided that after his cousins' deaths the $8,000,000 should be divided equally...
This year resilient Oldster Sargent had most fun parading the folklore of U. S. education. Most fantastic folkway, lie found, is commencement, "the greatest folk festival the world has known." Counting graduates, mothers, fathers, sisters, cousins and aunts, some 25,000,000 U. S. citizens take part in this festival each June
Whether it was black cats, walking under ladders, or a shattered mirror that jinxed the Crimson track forces at New Haven Saturday, or whether Jaakko's operatives were just having an off day will never be known. But in the most brilliantly contested Heptagonal meet since its inception five years ago, favored Harvard went down to defeat to Cornell by a slim half point...