Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva the League of Nations Council, holding its 105th meeting, was confronted with only minor or dead problems. Real doings took place in hushed hotel suites where British Foreign Seretary Lord Halifax and the Soviet delegate Ivan Maisky, also Ambassador at London haggled over the terms of the projected Anglo-French-Soviet mutual aid pact, with the prospect ever brighter that Britain would eventually accede to the Soviet demand for an out-&-out military alliance...
Thence, in his sedia gestatoria (portable chair) the Pope proceeded to the Basilica of St. John Lateran and the real business of the day. In a three-hour complicated ritual, he ascended and descended four Papal thrones, accepted two keys to the Lateran, gave his Cardinals special commemorative medals, laid an offering in a crimson velvet, gold-embroidered purse on the high altar. The long rite over, he appeared to the patient crowds on the balcony of the Basilica's portico. Mussolini's Italian guards struck up the papal hymn, the Pope's Palatine guards blared...
Overshadowed by the brilliant performances of George Downing, Jim Lightbody, and Don Donahue, Haydock has nevertheless been a real leader, lastilling into his team the spirit of hard work that has made it one of the most willing squads Jaakko has ever handted. Track is a hard, grueling, year-round sport that only says off for a . But the alledged strength of this year's team is provided largely by the men who don't always place in the money...
...mayor explained that the $100,000 figure was arrived at only after careful consideration by the committee, "having taken the proportion of the total budgets of the fire and police departments, and the valuation of exempt real estate owned by Harvard bears to the total value of real estate in the city...
...short run relationship between Harvard and the City of Cambridge has often been strained but over the long run, differences of opinion between the two have been essentially financial. Sometimes, as in the election hullabaloo last fall, the real argument is beclouded by political smoke-screens; at other times, Harvard is lambasted for "red' activities or student pranks. Still, the true bone of contention is money...