Word: leos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General Russel B. Reynolds, Major General Leo Donovan, Major General James A. Lester, Brigadier General Egbert F. Bullene, Brigadier General Morris C. Handwerk...
...cornfields got the worst of it. In rich Wright County, more than half the stalks were flattened. Said Farmer Leo Woodley: "I looked at my field about 10 a.m. when the wind began to blow. When I came back at noon, she was almost all down. Last year we got 80 bushels to the acre, and this year all we can hope...
Then Alfred Maurer fell into revolutionary company. At Gertrude and Leo Stein's famous Saturday evenings, he met some of the pioneers of modern French painting. Around Paris he caught glimpses of the work of les fauves, the "wild beasts"-Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain -whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear. His own academic interiors and portraits looked drab and uninspired by comparison. In 1904, renouncing his old formal ways, he flirted with impressionism and became the first U.S. artist to follow up the experiments of les fauves...
...Dean Bowie cited such modern instances as the Vatican's Lateran Treaty with Mussolini (which named Roman Catholicism "sole religion of the State"); the recent reports by New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart of discrimination against Protestants in Spain (TIME, March 7); the 1885 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII stating that "it is not lawful for the State ... to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; and an article in the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica (TIME, June 28, 1948) which stated: "The Roman Catholic Church, convinced, through its divine prerogatives, of being the only true...
Operation Trusty. In Michigan City, Ind., Trusties Walter Gump and Leo Stumbaugh, stopped while walking out of the Indiana State Prison, admitted that they did it frequently, had used their time off to hold up a store for $4,145 and buy a Buick coupe, which they kept in the prison parking lot when it was not being used either for joyrides or for getaway purposes in other holdups...