Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main part of the collection is housed on the second floor of the Museum, which also contains the Museum of the Department of Geology. This year the building is open to the public only on Saturday and Sunday...
Comrade Zinoviev, who promptly called the letter a "clumsy electioneering forgery"was at the time Chairman of the Third International: the World Communist Party whose main office was and is in Moscow. Two years later Zinoviev quarrelled with Stalin, was expelled from the Party in 1927, begged forgiveness. He was readmitted to the Party in 1928 but has never been a Big Red since. His job last week, before Dictator Stalin kicked him out a second time, was merely that of director of the Provincial University at Kazan-500 miles from Moscow...
...main passageway was a large, natural rock room with three big niches. The niches apparently afforded living quarters for the Sibyl and her servants. The large room must have been her audience chamber. (Virgil refers to its concavity.) From that chamber radiated three small passageways leading to three pools where the Sibyl bathed before going through her leafy mysteries. Dr. Maiuri, delighted by the reality of what for 2,400 years had been deemed legend, stood silent, heard naught but the clop clop of water dripping from the crevices of the Cumaean Rock...
...modern form of Winter Carnival is something of which Dartmouth has always been proud. It has become more established with the years until it is now a permanent feature of winter activity in Hanover. It attracts hundreds of visitors yearly, so a short explanation of its main highlights may attract a few more...
Giovanni Morosini always loved the feel of a good knife. He built a special armory near the main house and filled it with morions, pikes, arquebusses, rapiers, burganets, daggs, arbalests, cabassets, lobstertailed salades, crossbows and Courlandish tschinkes. His stable was the pride of the Hudson. To the day of his death the Doge of Elmhurst cursed the automobiles that frightened his horses and sent his smart Brewster phaetons into ditches...