Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Alessandro Mussolini was not only a blacksmith but a revolutionary, an Internationalist, an anti-religionist, and a devout apostle of Bacchus...
...Sokolnikov, Lashe-vich and Kamenev. The "new triumvirate" are: 1) Joseph Dzhugashvili "Stalin"- political "boss" par excellence, nominally only Secretary General of the Communist Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late Felix E. Dzerzhinsky (TIME, Aug. 2) as chairman of the Supreme Economic Council. The settled policy of these men is to transform the "pure" Communist state, as conceived by Lenin, into a regime in which modified capitalism is recognized but kept subservient to the state. Secretary General Stalin...
...negative virtues, to be "on terms of intimacy with all recent graduates who are likely to be able to give money ... on some sort of terms with nearly every recent graduate, except perhaps purely domestic Jews and Irish." Mr. Whitney was pictured, in a study made illustrious by the late Barrett Wendell, as an "electric person" to whom all manner of Harvard officials, from the President down, enter for weighty conference or valued advice. Of Mr. Whitney the pamphleteer cried: "What meteoric rise is this! . . . All the requisites but age, and President Lowell does not resign...
...Late in August, Digger Gilbert T. Brewer returned from a trip down the Mississippi Valley, to Mexico City and South America via Panama, with extensive evidence of Norse expeditions having penetrated this continent thoroughly in pre-Columbus days. Some of Mr. Brewer's evidence: 1) Indian legends of huge serpents appearing on Lake Ontario. (Norse war galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization...
...Flying tutor to the late, famed Ace Seorges Guynemer...