Word: present
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was Swedish alarm that Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler declared flatly that "if the Finns agree to present ports to the Soviet Union this would signify the end of Scandinavia!" The Pravda headline over this was Hypocritical Political Game Of Certain Swedish Statesmen. Russian press and radio charged that Britain and France were egging Norway and Sweden into egging Finland into disastrous truculence. "During the Tsarist regime Finland was completely subjected to Russia," snorted Pravda. "Then, Swedish statesmen never muttered about danger for Sweden, but cringed and groveled in every way before the Tsarist Government!" They now have a chance...
...went to Paris, and later she got another big settlement. Carol was soon sent on a trip to Egypt, India and Japan, only to find on his return that his family had picked out for him a beautiful and royal bride-to-be -Helen, sister of George II, the present King of Greece. They were married in 1921, and seven months later Princess Helen gave birth to Mihai, who fortnight ago celebrated his 18th birthday, and who was last week given a new palace near his father...
...blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked eye, no microscope is needed...
...Sample's angular New England landscape (Westerly, R. I.), Charles W. Thwaites' wheat harvesters (Chilton, Wis.), William Calfee's fishermen drawing up their nets at dawn (Phoebus, Va.). Common denominator of the 48 is an attempt to say something definite about the U. S., past or present. Most interesting of the historical designs is Avery Johnson's spirited winter scene for Bordentown, N. J., which shows Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, who settled on the Delaware River after his brother Napoleon's downfall, watching his footman distribute largess to skaters on his private pond...
...this time officers from the news, business, photographic, and editorial boards will be present to show prospective candidates around the building and to explain to them the system of competitions...