Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immigrant had arranged a code with his friends before returning to the promised land. "I will send a picture," he told them. "If I am well off, I will be standing. If things are going badly with me, I will be sitting down." The first snapshot to arrive showed the sender lying flat on the ground...
...crowded Mexico City's cypress-shaded Chapultepec Park to mark the 100th anniversary of Los Niños Heroes. Even after President Truman's popular gesture in visiting Los Niños monument last March, it was a touchy moment. Some Americans and Mexicans thought that to send West Point cadets to last week's ceremony was a big mistake...
Rosika Schwimmer, famed war-to-war pacifist (who persuaded Henry Ford to send his "Peace Ship" to Europe in 1915), turned 70 in Manhattan, plumped for world government, laid the blame for war: "Men, women, young people, old people, capital, labor, militarists, churches, educators, scientists," said she, "accuse each other for causing and keeping up the war system they all proclaim to hate. They are all wrong and equally guilty...
Colonel Mare McClure, commandant of the Harvard ROTC unit, announced an Air Force training program in addition to the traditional Field Artillery course, while under the Holloway plan which Congress passed last spring the Navy plans to send 50 students to Cambridge...
This is a collection of engaging and often touching chronicles of crime in an age (1660-1800) when a petty theft could send an Englishman to the gallows. Editor de la Torre's scholarship is graced with gusto that sometimes falls into archness, but her selections are almost all first-rate. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift are among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables...