Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kitchener aboard. Other submarine-mining triumphs of 1914-18 were sinking the British dreadnought Audacious off the Irish Coast; also S. S. Laurentic, with ?5,000,000 in gold aboard to pay for U. S. munitions. And a U-boat mine sank the U. S. armored cruiser San Diego right near Fire Island off the New York coast...
...Batavia sits the Volksraad, a legislative assembly composed half of natives and subjects of foreign origin and half of Hollanders. But the Volksraad has exceedingly limited powers. Only recently it acquired the right to initiate legislation. The real power rests in a tropical palace at Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives His Excellency Jonkheer A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the Governor General. Aside from being able to tell such high-sounding potentates as the Sultan of Solo or the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to run their States, he can also veto any measure that a rebellious Volksraad might pass. Moreover...
...naked tots at the nursery school provided by Sarah Lawrence for students of Child Psychology, Personality Development, and The Family. Like Joan, other student actresses find their texts outside of books, in skeletons, housing projects, surgical operations. But the film skip's something that Sarah Lawrence girls spotted right off with a long, loud hoot: Joan never plays...
...right. Hitler's father was legitimized before Adolf was born...
...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, a bright, brown-eyed Michigan lad with good schooling and a job, seemed headed in the right direction. Then, one night in 1933, he went dead wrong. With his big brother and two other fellows, he kidnapped and robbed a Detroit man named Joseph Nesbitt, watched one of the gang shoot the victim and leave him to die by the roadside...