Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin himself stood solemnly in a guard of honor before the body of his late friend...
...perfectionist and he brought no more than a dozen of his meticulously etched plates to the standard that he demanded of himself. His finest works were featured last week in an exhibition of recently acquired prints at Washington's National Gallery. Bequeathed to the gallery by the late Manhattan collector R. Horace Gallatin...
...Late in 1943, Masao Mimatsu, postmaster and amateur volcanologist of Sobetsu, a small town in southwestern Hokkaido, was working on routine papers. Once in a while he looked out the window at his pet volcano, intermittently active Mount Usu, two miles away. On Dec. 31 he heard a mighty rumbling and the ground began to tremble. Shouting "Ji-shin!" (earthquake), he rushed outdoors and looked again at Mount Usu. The tall black volcano showed no signs of life...
Before the shy volcano stopped growing late in 1945, it reached a height of about 1,000 feet. Said Professor Tanakadate, of the rare phenomenon that had been observed with such care: "It may be a source of fear and destruction to the ordinary inhabitants of the area, but to scientists it is a source of wonder and delight. Actually, we scientists know so little...
Look for the Silver Lining (Warner), Hollywood's newest tender recollection of Broadway's glamourous past, tells the life story of the late Marilyn Miller. Fondly and sometimes foolishly, the script follows Marilyn (June Haver) from the day she joins up, in pigtails and high-button shoes, with her family's vaudeville act, to a fictitious revival of Sally in the 1930s. In between it sandwiches colorful chunks of a half dozen of Broadway's best-remembered shows, samplings of their biggest tune hits, reel after reel of dance routines by June Haver and Ray Bolger...