Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Priceless Heirloom." Knutson's headquarters detachment, meanwhile, had been busy with that "priceless heirloom: the only building in America that brings us in contact with the Middle Ages." Holand reviews the several theories on the origin of the Newport landmark, including the widely accepted one that it was erected as a windmill by a Rhode Island colonial governor. Following Philip Ainsworth Means and others, and citing copious structural details, Holand concludes that the windmill theory is unsound-that the building was originally a "round, fortified stone church" of a type common in medieval Scandinavia. The builders: obviously, Knutson...
...called immigration of the 40,000 Turks of Armenian origin, there can be no more significant answer than repeating a statement of our former Premier Sükrü Saracoglu...
...York masses are reached by the Hearst papers . . . and by the News, the phenomenally successful tabloid, all of which reflect the Midwestern and Western origin of their publishers...
...missiles' most likely origin: Peenemünde, former V-bomb base on Germany's Soviet-occupied Baltic coast. Swedish Army spokesmen knew little beyond the fact that they were fired with a new type of weapon. But a picture released by the Army last week finally convinced all the papers (except the Communist) that the rockets were real, and that a foreign power (i.e., Russia) was using Sweden as a testing ground. Blustered Stockholm's Social Democratic Morgantidningen: "Intrusiveness must not be allowed to continue...
...education must be financed through funds outside this amount. For this work in India, an estimated $80,000 is needed by the Friends Committee, a sum that must be raised through the voluntary contributions of people interested in helping those who are suffering, 'regardless of race, creed, or national origin...