Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daladier's trip was not entirely spent in mere ceremonial. Tanks, artillery and soldiers were displayed for Tunisia's-and Italy's-benefit. Two hundred eighty miles southeast of Tunis and 65 miles from the Italian-held Libyan frontier is France's desert Maginot Line of barbed wire, small forts and pillboxes buried in sand dunes...
...married into one of Japan's four wealthiest families. For long he has rebelled at the army's proposal; last week it was rumored that, for the sake of his conscience and his skin, he was getting out. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, golf-playing descendant of a long line of courtiers, has from the beginning disliked his job. For 19 months he and other moderates in his Cabinet have conducted a gallant, ineffective rearguard action against army-dominated colleagues. Premier Prince Konoye quit, so did Finance Minister Ikeda...
...taxonomy is always arbitrary because species, genera and families tend to merge into one another. So many "missing links" have been found by paleontologists that an exact dividing line between humans and apes is almost nonexistent. Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman. In the past two years Dr. Robert Broom of Pretoria's Transvaal Museum has found in South Africa the fossil remains of two very manlike apes which have been called man-apes...
...calls himself Homo sapiens and is fond of acting like the viceroy of God." He points out that some scientists who ought to know better keep toying with the idea that, during the general evolution of the vertebrates, a sort of separate channel was set aside for the line which was eventually to flower...
Engaged. Omero Cesere Catan, 24, Manhattan vacuum cleaner salesman, specialist in being first in line whenever a new bridge or tunnel is opened; to Jean Tobolka, 27, stenographer; in Manhattan; after getting the first Manhattan marriage license...