Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to Rome in 1946 as a parliamentary deputy; a year later Luigi Einaudi, now Italy's President, took him into the Finance Ministry to help promote his hard-money policy. Pella took with him his boyhood concern for pennies and his businessman's love for the solid lira, and soon became De Gasperi's Finance Minister. To keep the lira stable, he fought tenaciously against many of his party who wanted vote-catching spending programs. Once, in 1951, he resigned rather than give in, bringing the government down with him. De Gasperi formed a new Cabinet...
...sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...
Thus, with a solid line, a dangerous passing threat, and an adequate running offense, Lou Little's worries about the backfield holding up its end may be only partially justified. The question mark in today's game shouldn't be "Is the Columbia backfield going to produce?" but rather "how well?" It will be the Crimson's job to try to counter that question with an exclamation...
Only one of the three floors is fully occupied at present. This one, the third floor, is being used for work in electromagnetic radiation, solid state physics, and physical electronics. The group experimenting in electromagnetic waves also uses a penthouse on the roof of the building for antenna research. A unique feature of this installation is a ground-screen on top of the penthouse that will give the scientists the equivalent of an infinite plane for their experiments...
...great disappointment of Sherlock Holmes, however, is the quality of the principals' performances. While Nigel Bruce played Watson as a slow, but solid aide to Holmes, Jack Raine makes him a retarded Colonel Blimp, rather mildly interested in Holmes' adventures. Similarly, Thomas Gomez is badly miscast as Professor Moriarity. Though unctuously sinister, Gomez looks more like an indigent music teacher than a Napoleon of crime. His great girth and flowing hair hardly suit the "lean, ascetic" arch-criminal of Doyle's imagination...