Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spleen is a ductless lymphatic-like gland touching the top of the left kidney. It manufactures white blood cells and, when necessary, red blood cells. Its removal does not cause serious consequences...
...scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...
...rampant patriotism, printed such reckless denouncements of even highest government officials when he suspected them of pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative which Clemenceau described thus: "It was a case of Caillaux [pacifist] or myself. Had Poincare sent for Caillaux he would have had me arrested and made peace with Germany. He sent for me. I decided to have Caillaux arrested and to go on with...
...Before the turn of the new year Lenin and Trotsky were the Gods of Moscow, and Bukharin was their Prophet. He remained for eleven years?until only a few months ago?the most potent of Soviet editors and publicists. He watched Lenin die. He saw Trotsky exiled for a "Left Heresy" (TiME, Jan. 30, 1928), and as Editor of Pravda, foremost Red daily, gave his old friend many a parting editorial kick. He became the closest confidant, and was called the "brains" of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin...
...building. When the general sentiment about the new tower is so well defined, it would be a pity to have it built along its present lines without some consideration of a possible change. Certainly with the house hardly more than four feet above the ground there is ample time left for revision...