Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment, at least, the Pacific Big Three are only secondarily interested, if at all, in propaganda warfare: i.e., appeals to the Japanese against their Emperor and government or to the conquered people of greater Asia (always excepting the Chinese, whose ruler had joined in the common declaration...
...doubtful whether Leonardo ever embraced a woman in love. . ." Leonardo's first patron was Lorenzo de' Medici, lavish ruler of Florence. But Leonardo served himself miserably: he was ridden by a perfectionism which prevented him from finishing a work. Even the patient Lorenzo finally let his artist go-to Milan, where he served the great Duke Ludovico Sforza. There Leonardo ranged through "interior decoration, gadget design, city planning, court painting and sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science...
Jensen had come to the U.S. as a cabin boy, and Woollcott had helped him through medical school, ultimately made him his attending physician. Other Woollcott bequests: to Hamilton College (his alma mater), his library; to Harvard, a silver ruler Franklin D. Roosevelt gave...
...mother of cities," Russia's ancient capital, a venerated center of history and lore, a beloved and lovely spot. From Kiev, Slav buccaneers sailed on their raids to ancient Byzantium, down the Dnieper and across the turbulent Black Sea. A thousand years ago, Kiev's ruler, Prince Vladimir, was baptized in the sluggish Dnieper, made Kiev the heart of Russia's Greek Orthodox faith. When Berlin was still a muddy village, Kiev's famed Petchersky Monastery was green with...
...this is the very logic which explodes the theory itself. What safety can there ever be in a hereditary monarchy when even a ruler with a fairly enlightened point of view is nothing but the tool of the faction in power? . . . The religious zeal of Japanese loyalty and patriotism must be broken, and through the Emperor, if humanism is ever to penetrate to the Nipponese themselves...