Word: poincar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Leonid Konstantinovich Ramzin, 61, Soviet engineer, chief defendant in the notorious 1930 Industrial Party trial; after long illness; in Moscow. Tried before Andrei Vishinsky, Ramzin dutifully "confessed" that, together with Winston Churchill, ex-French Premiers Poincaré and Briand, he and his fellow "wreckers" were planning a military attack on the U.S.S.R. After his death sentence had been commuted to ten years' imprisonment, Ramzin's inventions won him freedom (1932), the Order of Lenin and the 150,000-ruble Stalin Prize...
...mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years ago is 2,500,000 words away...
...Virgil (to whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus, Lucretius, Democritus, Kant, Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Pierre Dubois, l'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Poincaré, Ruy Barbosa and the Baron de Rio Branco (of Brazil), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bernard M. Baruch...
...townspeople awoke to see a huge Cross of Lorraine painted in kaolin* on the broad lawns on the Jardin d' Ambohijatovo on Poincaré Square, where nearly the whole town could see it. Native gardeners were ordered to wash away the Cross with water; it hardened. They dug up the kaolined turf; the Cross remained boldly outlined in the red soil. They filled it in with new grass; for seven days it showed starkly until the grass grew green. Thereafter the new turf grew more green than the old, and the Cross still showed...
...were girls-had banded together under a 19-year-old leader to form their own unit of the Fighting French. They had certificates of membership and secret meeting places. Theirs were the slogans scrawled at night, the stenciled angel, the Cross outlined in green on Poincaré Square. Of them their leader said: "They're good comrades-no one has ever given away a fellow member...