Word: renee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Histologist Jean Painleve had been experimenting with the lower forms of plant and animal life. As they grew and unfolded in his test tubes, their unscientific intrinsic beauty seemed to him, to merit reproduction by the cinema. He called up a friend, the French cinema director, Rene Sti. M. Sti at once despatched a cameraman. The cameraman cranked, Jean Painleve fussed in and out of the pictures with his test tubes, then the extraordinary occurred...
Foreign Minister Louis Loucheur Finance Rene-Renoult Justice...
...aces," up to the time of his death (Sept. 11, 1917), having shot down 53 planes. The Allied super-aces for the whole War period were: France, Lieutenant Rene Fonck (78 planes) ; Britain, Major E. W. Mannock (73 planes) ; the U. S-, Captain "Eddie" Rickenbacker (22 planes, 3 balloons). The tabulation of scores was accomplished under different rules by the various combatant countries. A rigid "comparison" is not possible...
Richards won from Rene Lacoste, Johnson from Alonzo, Williams from Howard Kinsey. In the semi-final round Tilden, after dropping the first set, paid Vincent Richards the compliment of opposing him with his utmost, with the consequence that Richards steadily lost hope and games, going to pieces in the last set to surrender, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. Johnston devoted 47 minutes to the disposal of Richard Norris Williams 2nd, who as usual could not summon his own brilliance when he needed it most...
...years ago, Rene Viviani, war Premier of France, fell, a huddled heap, over the grave of Isabelle Vouhelier-Lepelletier, his wife, His great voice which on a thousand platforms had been a "kaleidescope of sound" choked with broken sobs...