Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial to her late husband, Afric explorer...
With the marriage of the Tsaritsa's son to a German princess and his ascension as Nicholas II, the life of Maria Feodorovna entered its final and increasingly tragic stage. In vain she strove to prevent the Last of the Tsars, her son, from becoming the dupe of Rasputin and his other degenerate councilors. Once she said to him, "Come
...Life came to President Chiang Kai-shek 41 years ago in the minute village of Fenghwa in Chekiang Province. After running away from being apprenticed to a merchant he managed to win a military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried...
...Life Span. In 1840 a person aged 50 might have expected to live to be 70. In spite of decreased infant mortality, public hygiene and medical skill, a person now 50 can expect to live only until he is 71. (Louis Israel Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician...
...ceremony of recognition, by the way, is one of the most remembered in a cadet's life. June Week, just before graduation, is full of reviews, parades, and ceremonies. There are kings and princelings to be honored, and gray-haired old grads with the sallow cheeks of the Orient service upon them. Grimfaced men who have moved regiments and divisions to battle, who have built canals and railroads, who have broadened frontiers and brought peace and civilization to savage tribes; we are proud to honor them...