Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year spell of non-intercourse between British and University debaters will end next Monday when the Debate Council entertains a team from Cambridge University...
Duel's promotion campaign-which includes practically every trick imaginable, from dropping 5,000 parachutes at the Kentucky Derby to beach stickers which spell out the title on sunburned skin-makes Hollywood's normally brassy efforts in this line look pale. Duel is currently showing only in Los Angeles; the plan is to blanket the country, area by area, during the spring and summer, releasing some 350 prints before fall. Reasons for the distribution delay: 1) labor troubles have delayed Technicolor processing; 2) difficulties with United Artists have forced Mr. Selznick to set up his own distribution machinery...
...Peace Conference began with a less festive scrubbing and whitewashing in Moscow's Moskva and Metropole Hotels. But the prospects for the meeting on which all of Europe's peace depends were not bright. The report to the Foreign Ministers, which the deputies turned in after a spell of predeadline frenzy, was largely a list of deadlocks...
Moment of Greatness. In 1936, he courageously sacked his own supporter, crooked Minister of War George ("The Thunderbolt") Kondylis, declared an amnesty for anti-royalists, and instituted a liberal Cabinet. For a while George was so popular that his subjects took to wearing monocles, in his fashion. But the spell did not last long; when the anti-royalists became difficult, he permitted the late, pro-German John Metaxas to form an iron dictatorship which lasted till World War II. It was then that George had his moment of greatness. When the Greek people inspired the world by fighting against Italy...
After Dave Farrell opened the second period with a quick goal, the Varsity ran into a fast B.C. attack. This was coupled with tight and rugged play on the defense that netted tallies for the opposition before Dick Greeley could break the spell with a solo score...