Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-century has seen the Congo achieve an economic miracle, become the world's leading producer of industrial diamonds, cobalt, uranium, and one of the major exporters of copper and tin. During World War II the Congo even paid the bills for the Belgian government in exile. While Britain and France poured large sums into overseas territories, the Congo colony's $960 million ten-year development plan has been 70% financed by the Congo itself. Not only whites have profited. For the Congo's African citizens there are 2,468 hospitals and dispensaries; more than...
...Clariosophic Society. The college debaters purged Scott when he stuck by the Union at the outset of the Civil War. A century later, some Clariosophomores still think Virginia's Scott was "a man with the blood of our predecessors dripping from his hands"; but the ayes had seen his glory coming...
...bucket in The Singing Fool (1928). It is a masterpiece that should wring tears from an Ulsterman. But as the henchmen file piteously past the deathbed to murmur their last, tearful goodbyes, the serious sort first and the dopey guy last, many moviegoers may wonder where they have seen the heart-wrenching but somehow faintly silly scene before. A few may remember. It occurs, with only minor variations, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Dove is much too keen To let a single bird be seen; To show the pigeons would not do And so he simply paints...
...Although Harvard has criticized a lack of documentation of resolutions, all resolutions are prepared from documents seen by all voting delegates," Beck commented...