Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Parallax is the apparent motion of a star caused by the earth's revolution around the sun. The nearer the star, the larger the apparent motion.
¶ From the Russian revolution: a jerky, 20-year-old shot, shown before in the U. S. in Tsar to Lenin (TIME, March 22, 1937) of the execution of nine men, three at a clip. Standing on the brink of a deep, wide grave, they face the firing squad stolidly...
Among the private collections drawn upon, notable were those of : Mrs. Rockefeller, whose U. S. primitives supplied such beauties as Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet...
Up for election last week as New York Stock Exchange governors were 27 out & out reformers, a complete change from the "Old Guard" whose long rule reached a climax two months ago in the Richard Whitney scandal. This revolution in the most capitalistic organization in the U. S. drew 924...
In the end, when Oliver has ruined Livia, caused the suicide of Rory's beautiful sister, has shot down his friend Rory in the Irish revolution, and is himself hanged for murdering a cashier, the reader has the feeling that these disasters are not entirely the fault of the...