Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denials. Army officers declared that only no loaves of bread a day had been purchased at 'Quoddy in July, denied that any pie had ever been purchased, got an affidavit from William Doyle, 'Quoddy's garbage contractor, who solemnly swore: "At no time have I ever seen pie in the garbage or swill...
...express halted at Salzburg, the King was seen to be accompanied by his grave friend and private secretary of many years, Sir Godfrey Thomas, and by his exuberant friend and sparkling equerry Major Sir John Renton ("Jackie") Aird, but his female guests remained secluded...
...celebrate the 300th Anniversary of Harvard University, potent graduates lent to Robinson Hall last week the most important collection of antiques New Englanders have seen for a generation. Also last week the Harvard Forest joined the festivities with an exhibition that a group of trained craftsmen has been preparing for the past five years. Sixteen illuminated models went on view near the famed glass flowers in the University Museum. Portrayed in miniature and exact detail were the history and proper care of a New England forest...
Geoffrey Gorer expected to find Bali ballyhooed to the point of tedium. Instead it turned out to be so fresh and attractive that he was convinced that he had seen the nearest approach to Utopia on earth. Java for the most part left him cold, as did Sumatra and Siam. He says that "never having been to California," Bangkok is the most hokum place he has ever seen...
...square, rising almost as high as the tower of Notre Dame in Paris and built about the same time, he decided must be one of the loveliest pieces of architecture in the world, the most perfect building, except for Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital, that he had ever seen...