Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lille, and Mrs. Bruno Benziger, wife of a Manhattan publisher, who was there as official representative of the New York Ladies of Charity. Pope Pius XI was borne in, amid cheers, on his high scdia gcstatoria. Gravely he presided over the lengthy canonization ceremony. Then in reply to thrice-repeated petitions the Holy Father pronounced: "Decernimus et definimus. . , . We decree and define that Blessed Louise de Marillac, widow of Antoine le Gras, is a saint." St. Louise de Marillac was born of a noble family in 1591 in Paris. Married to Antoine le Gras, secretary to Queen Marie de Medici...
Coatless and black shirted himself, last week Il Duce faced the Chamber which thrice rose and sang the Fascist anthem "Youth, youth, springtime of beauty!"* before the 60 minute session began...
...Minister of Colonies. "I signed that letter purely as a matter of form," protested M. Dalimier. "I was asked to do so by Julien Durand[then Minister of Commerce] and all the world knows that the bonds of a French Crédit Municipal are supposed to be good!" Thrice asked for his resignation, M. Dalimier at last gave it grudgingly...
Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
Bespectacled Chartmaker Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was born in Russia 45 years ago. His studies of violence have not been entirely academic. He was imprisoned thrice under the Tsarist regime for radicalism, thrice by the Bolshevists for conservatism. Sentenced to death, he was awaiting execution when the Communist Government relented, chased him out in 1922. Next year he came to the U. S., taught at the University of Minnesota, was naturalized in 1930, is now head of Harvard's Sociology Department. Chartmaker Nikolai Nikolaevich Golovine, 58, distinguished World War historian, was once a general staff officer of the Imperial Army...