Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That blending in Europe began early is illustrated by the fact that in Germany more than a half-dozen racial types were mingling before the end of the Stone Age. Nordics are a minority in present-day Germany, for Nordics are characteristically dolichocephalic (longheaded) whereas most Germans are brachycephalic (round-headed). The brachycephalic include Borreby and Alpine types, relatively little changed since the Stone Age, and Binaries, a Mediterranean importation of narrow-nosed roundheads...
...Vatican's most useful U. S. prelates. He it was who rebroadcast in English the late Pope's first radio speech. He it was who, in 1931, smuggled out of Italy, by airplane, an anti-Fascist papal encyclical which was in danger of being suppressed. When the present Pope visited the U. S. in 1936, no prelate was more in his company than Bishop Spellman...
...Irish Republican Army has terrorized England with many a bombing. Last week the Roman Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales unlimbered its biggest gun against the I.R. A.-threat of excommunication. In a statement read in all Catholic churches in Britain, the hierarchy declared: "Among the causes of the present unrest are workings of certain secret societies. The church sternly condemns all societies which plot against the church or state. They are guilty of crime against human society. Members of such secret societies incur excommunication...
...Catholic clergy are of Irish origin. In Manhattan last month, I.R.A. clubs joined other Irish groups in a "monster commemoration" of Ireland's Easter Week Rebellion of 1916. As noted by the Brooklyn Tablet (Catholic), the meeting's agenda included a vote in "support of the present campaign of the I.R.A. in England." None at the meeting feared excommunication...
...Western Union Telegraph Co. was staged last fortnight by Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto, who popped up at the annual meeting (at which President Roy Barton White announced a 1938 loss of $1,637,000). Mr. Flatto declared he had proxies representing 250,000 shares and did not like the present management. After a stormy session (TIME, April 24), the meeting adjourned while the proxies were counted. Last week President White announced that the management slate received 531,812 votes, the Flatto opposition...