Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet was only a Deputy, representing the Mati tribe, of which he is hereditary Chieftain, he signed a marriage contract with Shefqut and became the legal husband of Fatima. It was an excellent marriage for him, then. Shefqut was rich and powerful and owned most of Southern Albania. Events immediately subsequent upon that marriage prevented Achmet's taking his bride. It was not his fault-then. There were revolutions. There was interference, armed, by foreign powers...
...through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres of rich Greene County were flooded. Army Engineers tried to save the St. Francis River levees in Missouri, but in the face of rising water or- dered their 1,500 workers and their families to flee for their lives. At Blytheville, Ark. guards were posted on the Mississippi levees with orders...
...records of the textiles, which here include embroideries, are certainly impressive. Perhaps no other art will disclose such possibilities for comparative study when all regions are ultimately brought into the national portfolios. In the textiles, the workmanship of the project artists is amazing. The colors are rich yet they achieve the softness of the wool, the folds and the textures create an almost complete illusion...
...organization of the school should include a dean, a separate faculty, its own curriculum and degree, as well as a separate budget. New courses should be offered, although the University Curriculum already offers a rich field for students in the School...
...appalling state of malnutrition: sties, boils and pimples, cases of jaundice and of scab, scales between the fingers, scurvy of the gums, dry abscesses on necks and behind ears." At first there were ways of getting enough food: if you were a woman, and young, or if you were rich enough to buy from smugglers. Author van der Meersch implies that the Belgians were comparatively well off, had plenty to eat. German policy in Belgium was conciliatory, in occupied France, punitive...