Word: originate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunantul, on the western bank of the Danube, the rampart where for 150 years Hungarians fought the Turkish invaders from the East. He was born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty potentates. Says one Hungarian priest: "The Primate is a great man, it is true...
Fred L. Whipple, associate professor of Astronomy and newly appointed chairman of the Department of Astronomy, will speak at 3:45 p.m. Friday afternoon on the "Origin of the Solar System." Whipple was largely responsible last year for the discovery of the "dustcloud hypothesis" of planet formation...
...Hitler's Germany, these people are regarded as opposed to the regime by birth, even though they may never have engaged in active opposition. "Class enemies," on the other hand, may come from a long line of workers or peasants. They include all the known antiCommunists, regardless of origin. Their eventual destination, when Rakosi's overworked policemen get around to them, is the jail, the concentration camp, or the crematory...
Mankiewicz has wisely grouped his three episodes so that the film gets better as it goes along. The first sequence, which is the only one to suffer from glossy traces of the story's slick-magazine origin, catches an ex-farm girl (Jeanne Crain) in a panic of social inferiority to her husband (Jeffrey Lynn) and his friends...
Your comments on King George VI's condition [TIME, Dec. 6] show that the disease is essentially psychological in origin . . . The disease is a variant of the Oedipus affliction, from which so many men suffer. Your comment upon the preponderance of male victims is relevant here...