Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wedding Bells. Only fault with this reasoning was that Son Carol refused to play. A year or so of training at Potsdam, a tutor in the person of Professor Nicholas Jorga, a dogged old National Democrat who was against virtually everything the Bratianus stood for-these put unexpected backbone into the young Prince. Mother Marie was too busy hatching plots to notice that Son Carol was developing a mind of his own. She had a first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World...
...away with her in 1925, and in the very hotel from which his father had once renounced his throne, he was said to have penned a similar letter. Mihai, Carol's son, was declared next in succession. Then King Ferdinand died, and little Mihai was put on the throne surrounded by a regency consisting of his uncle, Prince Nicholas, Patriarch Miron Cristea, Supreme Court President George Buzdugan...
After removals, the jigsaw puzzle was only half there. What would the picture be when the new pieces were put...
...Government of Norway, not the least like a skittish housewife in its presence, detailed the mine layer Olaf Tryggvason and a torpedo boat to watch her. Off a fiord north of Bergen, the German prize crew requested that because of a sick man aboard, it should be allowed to put in at Haugesund, 60 miles south of Bergen and last port before the jump-off into British-patrolled waters. A doctor from Olaf Tryggvason went aboard, but all he could find by way of sickness was a man who had barked his shin on a barrel. Russia had let City...
Even better are the Curtiss fighters bought and proved by France, for many more of which both Britain and France were ready to bid last week (see p. 16). A story in London's Sunday Pictorial last month was certainly calculated to put into the R. A. F. any heart it may not have derived from its proved ability to handle the Germans to date. This story told of "mass executions of some of Germany's best pilots" following their refusal to fly for fear their planes had been sabotaged or because there were not enough Messerschmitts fighters...