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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eumorfopoulos is actually a British subject, born in Liverpool 71 years ago. Until his retirement last August he was vice president of a firm established in London since 1819: Ralli Brothers. Ltd.. private bankers and importers of rape, rice, cotton, hemp from India. The Rallis were of Greek origin, too. Importer Eumorfopoulos lives in London in a handsome house on the Chelsea Embankment, well known to Orientalists all over the world...
Cried the Dictator, raising his frothing glass of Italian champagne first: "We have worked not only to bring about agreement on particular questions concerning our two countries but also to reaffirm the ideals which come from our community of origin! The visit of our distinguished guest is of vast European significance, the first meeting point in the policies of two great Latin states...
...those early days there was nothing like the variety of viands to choose from and the students were almost wholly from Boston and vicinity. Today the student body of Harvard University is made up of men of an extraordinary range of origin, accustomed to widely different styles of food and cooking. Also they are at the time of life when they are acquiring new tastes and likings, and extending their knowledge of good eating. Their tastes change and become more catholic as they go through the University. For example, a spaghetti done in true Italian style, seasoned with garlic...
...most recent of Jeans' books about the great cosmic beyond, or to be more precise, the great around, one fins a model for popular scientific writing. Beginning with the origin of our earth as a ball of flaming matter, he traces its history to the present, pierces the atmosphere, travels to our moon, to the planets, to the sun, beyond our stars to stars infinitely greater, and finally to the nebulae, those gigantic whirling masses of worlds unborn, and thus in a sense returns to the beginning...
...STORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, by Paul Radia (Liveright, $2.50). If you've been doing a lot of wondering about the why's and where-fore's of the American Indian, you will gain some real dope from this matter-of-fact account of their origin, development, and . From "The Golden Day" to "The Heel of the Conqueror", the chapters lead the reader through a complete record of the original Americans. It is filled with historical fact, completely annotated, bibliographed, and indexed...