Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-Semitic Nazis, invoking their own version of the Mosaic law-a consul for a consul-last week countered Britain's expulsion of spyster German Consul General Reinhardt with a demand that England withdraw Consul General Donald St. Clair Gainer from Vienna. Charge against Consul General Gainer was also dabbling in espionage. Fumed a spokesman for the British Consul General: "Sheer nonsense seems a clear case of retaliation...
Other lawn games: deck tennis, lawn darts (with a cork target set on a wooden backstop), clock golf, rope quoits, paddle tennis, lawn cricket (a juvenile version of the British game), lawn hi-li (played on a court similar to badminton with wicker baskets instead of racquets and a narrow cord instead of a net), penguin skittles (a complicated version of ninepins with wooden penguins to knock down...
...much in salutation to the memory of England's well-loved "Old Girl" (scrapped in 1935) as in greeting to her namesake, 2,000 welcomers hallooed, waved, blew whistles, made comparisons. They found the new Mauretania a sturdier but less speedy version of the old, nearly two knots slower (average speed: 20.7 knots); less roomy (1,300 passengers); 13 feet shorter (length overall: 722 feet), but 4,000 tons heavier. Built for comfort, she will never duplicate the speed record of the "Old Girl," who held the mythical Blue Riband 22 years, until Germany's Bremen took...
...Disparus de St-Agil (Dimeco), French-made, is called Boys' School in its subtitled U. S. version. The mysterious disappearances at St-Agil school are open-and-shut stuff for the eager youngsters, some of whom last year rookied in Generals without Buttons...
...psychoanalytic procedure it is customary to counter the patient's own history of his case with the analyst's interpretation. Whether or not this psychoanalytic version is "truer," it sometimes succeeds in shattering the patient's preconceptions, in opening his mind to other alternatives of thought and action. Thus, in reviewing Jewish history, legends and attitudes, Freud very provocatively suggests: Moses, the founder of the Jewish religion, was no Jew, but an Egyptian...