Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were, in fact, only two places where enough action took place on the screen to rouse the drowsing audience: the burning of Rome scene and the one where the lions are supposed to dine on prime ribs of martyr. The former is indeed an impressive spectacle, but in the latter, the lions have so little actual contact with the Christian martyrs that the whole thing might well have been taken on a Friday...
...Tripoli and Benghazi, where proconsuls of the Phoenicians, the Caesars and the Ottomans once reigned, and the shards of Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest King, Idris I of Libya. Three territories, separated by wide deserts and mutual distrust-Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan -were united under a Western-style parliament and a constitution scissored and pasted together from the laws of twelve other countries...
Houser heads a tentative eight-man team lineup, and Coach Graham Taylor, who is director of the Student Employment Office, calls him the outstanding man at downhill and slalom events--the latter being obstacle racing around poles. Tim Wise, who played varsity baseball last spring is the stand-out jumper, according to Taylor...
Main cause of friction between the drive and the Red Cross was the latter's refusal to believe that the P.B.H. campaign would not more than 1,000 pints during its three days last week. Just before the opening of the drive P.B.H. officials had to go to the regional blood director and pleaded for enough nurses and equipment to blood 1,450 people...
...points by winning the hurdles, placing second in the dash, and trying for second in the 200. Bob Twitchell won the dash and took second in the hurdles, while Pete Dow and Ed Grutsner scored five points apiece, winning the 240 and 600 yard races respectively. In the latter race Coach Jaakko Mikkola kept Ronnie Berman on the bouch...