Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Nahas Pasha, leader of the nationalist Wafd Party, last week backed up pledges made to the Egyptian people and officially announced, in a letter to British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson, that as a sovereign nation Egypt would allow no "British interference in . . . internal affairs." He worked on plans for redistribution of available foodstocks, urged increased agricultural production with an eye toward self-sufficiency, prepared to crack down on hoarders and profiteers, as well as "intrigue and attempts to create disturbances...
Brazil's President Getulio Vargas opened the Conference with a speech calling for "the most solid and powerful alliance of free and sovereign nations that the history of humanity has ever known." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú began to fidget...
...people are the most important element in a nation; the land and grain are next; the sovereign is the least in importance...
...been one of the most beautiful cities in Russia. Novgorod means New Town, but Russia boasts few that are older. In the Ninth Century the New Town already exercised supremacy over the other towns of Russia's northwestern lake district. By the 13th Century, the place called itself "Sovereign Great Novgorod" and its Kremlin was already about as old as any structure in the U.S. is now. The Kremlin's newer stone walls were begun in 1302. Through the years the city accumulated hundreds of priceless relics, such as the great Twelfth Century bronze doors of the Cathedral...
...preparing its monthly survey, the Sovereign staff makes up a list of about 150 guinea pigs distributed strong the four classes, and chosen on the basis of four consideration whether they are working their way through college, what part of the country they come from, whether they are on Dean's list and whether they are from a private or public school...