Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very comfortable fort. Females, who made it home for Bolivia's heroes, numbered more than 150. There was even a cinema theatre and drinks were of the best. "Our soldiers are high-strung and enthusiastic over their victory," dot-dashed a Paraguayan military telegrapher. "They scarcely mention the truce in their conversations...
...feeling in some way responsible for it, the Council voted to build it at the province's expense. Holyoke's daughter remarks in a letter, "I hope the K.g. will give something to replace the loss as he has never done anything for this College yet". There is no mention of her wish having been granted. The Council, however granted 2,000 pounds immediately, and later 1,000 pounds, with a final grant of 1,112.18.7 1/2 pounds. There are varying opinions of the total cost of the building, the lowest estimate being 3,642,13.2 pounds, and the highest...
...answer the question "Who's Stalin?," Soviet citizens, who have no Who's Who, turn to the Small Soviet Encyclopaedia. In this they find no reference whatsoever to Stalin's wives or children because mention of such personal trivialities is considered "bourgeois" by Bolsheviks. Instead they read 3,000 rather turgid words opening with the sentence...
...William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art opened its massive bronze doors to let the public see a $4,000,000 collection sumptuously housed in a $2,500,000 marble palace. The Governors of Missouri and Kansas were there. So were the presidents of their State universities, not to mention half the tycoons of the Midwest. Led by Lord Duveen, dealers and art critics arrived from New York, Chicago, Paris, Venice, Madrid...
...such as whether or not Christ should be proclaimed to the heathen as God (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932 et seq.). Nothing has been said of oldtime ''Hell-fire for heathens"; much of good works for all humans. Missionary Jones loves the Cross (which the Report does not mention), distrusts syncretism (fusion of religions, which he believes the Report advocates). In Boston he cried: '"Our syncretism is not a patchwork but a Personality. Not our Western civilization but Christ is our message and what the world needs...