Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have added 250 square miles to the territory controlled by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, including 18 towns and villages and the strategically important Palomera mountain range, which dominates the main Teruel-Saragossa road on. the east...
...great show at Westminster last May, Britons saw a coronation. At another Westminster show, held in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Americans last week saw another coronation of less solemnity but more suspense. For until Judge John Bates stepped into the main ring and made his choice, 15,000 spectators had no knowledge which canine aristocrat would be crowned...
...Therefore the purpose of "tutorial" should be only to teach future concentrators the meaning and significance of tutorial. Opening their eyes to what the field officers, which of course will involve the introduction of new material, is wiser than assigning too much reading and too many reports. Despite their main function, Freshman tutors should not forget that they will be able to guide as well as to instruct...
...Main results of Ulen's tests showed that the value of oxygen for racing swimmers was negligible. However, since the principal effect of the gas in a pure form is to enable sprinters in the 50-yard free-style to hold their breath for the entire two laps, it was demonstrated that times for the 50 actually could be speeded...
...third act makes a sharp turn off Main Street. It is laid in a cemetery: time has passed, many townspeople have died. The dead sit rigidly on camp chairs, while close at hand a mass of huddled wet umbrellas evoke a funeral. The dead girl comes to join the other dead. But she still yearns for the living. Permitted to return among them, she sees how blindly they grope through life, comes back to the cemetery eager to forget. Living people, Wilder seems to say, miss most of experience; only the dead get down to essences. But this moral needs...