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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best known armament name in all the world is perhaps the name of Krupp. The Krupp who despite early discouragements at the hands of his own government, built up the gigantic works at Essen and made his name a synonym for cannon was Alfred--a strange figure who wore wooden sabots when he visited his factory, opened his window once a month, had a bathtub in his parlor, assembled his intimates in his own devising, and carried a steel walking stick. Alfred Krupp began as a humble petitioner of governments, coming hat in hand to ministers, kings, and emperors...
Explorer Harry St. John Bridger Philby has described the greater part of Yemen as "the worst mapped region of the inhabited globe." Its mountainous valleys are perhaps the most fertile in southern Arabia. Its almost deserted seaport of Mocha has become a synonym for coffee the world around. Coffee is still grown on Yemen's mountains but what little is exported goes through the port of Hodeida...
...Author, who takes a deep view of artists, thinks van Gogh was less gifted with imagination and talent than the average man. "But if the word artist . . . is a synonym for a man of such moral tenor that he only sets a further goal to his aspiration as his consciousness gains in the deepening perception of Nature and her laws, then Vincent was an artist and the greatest of our time...
...been practicing for weeks, however, and to sportsmen pilots throughout the land, it was enormously important. For years they had wanted some kind of national contest to give their sport a definite status, and to remove the stigma of "sissy pilot" which, some of them felt, was a popular synonym for "sportsman pilot...
...discernible, have generated the spark for many a journalistic wisecrack; except to the adventurous few who have been hardy enough to read her in the original (and to some of those) she has the reputation of a pure nonsense writer. To the man-in-the-street, she is the synonym for what Critic Max Eastman calls "the cult of unintelligibility." In man-in-the-street lingo, "Gert's poems are bunk...