Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rö, Sweden, King Gustaf took a chance in a lottery at a Red Coss bazaar, won two bunches of carrots, a flashy garter and some gingerbread, but missed out on a three-foot spettekaka (Swedish egg and spun-sugar delicacy) which he had set his heart...
...Louis C. Wool convened his court. Rival judges in Norwalk struck a rickety compromise-Republicans judged the even-numbered cases, Democrats the odd. Six habitual drunkards, up for sentencing in Waterbury, explained their presence: We were celebrating the appointment of the Democratic judges." Ten days," snapped Republican Judge Charles R. Summa...
...most enduring work as the paper's doctor of philology, in charge of amputating letters from words. One day last week, Astley-Cock's byline heralded the latest additions to the Trib's simplified spelling list-one of the most formidable latitudes of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's strange, solipsist world...
Unlike other World Bank surveys, this one began with President Eugene R. Black's announcement that the bank planned to lend Colombia $5-$10 million, possibly before the survey is finished. But the experts, said Black, will range far beyond the projects the bank may decide to finance. At government invitation, they will examine the whole Colombian economy, choosing the likeliest places where private investment, under Point Four auspices, might come in and help in the job of developing the country's resources...
...brought no more than a dozen of his meticulously etched plates to the standard that he demanded of himself. His finest works were featured last week in an exhibition of recently acquired prints at Washington's National Gallery. Bequeathed to the gallery by the late Manhattan collector R. Horace Gallatin...