Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoes be coated with a combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S. Marine Corps...
...contends that a Polynesian Chief sailed to Peru, perhaps over the same route used by Davis. The chief and his associates traveled along the Peruvian coast, picking up the culture, and transplanted it in Polynesia. This thesis is in almost direct contradiction to the much-hailed Kon-Tiki version, but some anthropologist now believe Davis' winter voyage has pushed Kon-Tiki into little more than a good adventure story...
While visiting the Law School Saturday, Hermes Lima said his country needs an expanded version of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. "The basis for IBRD loans is commercial; we need much more money--money that can be loaned to individual countries on a non-immediately profitable basis," he explained...
Bridge said an idealized version of John Harvard was perfectly acceptable. At any rate, he wanted a statue. The Rev. George E. Ellis, dedication speaker, argued, "There is necessarily much that is unsatisfactory in a wholly idealized representation by art of an historical person of whose form, features, and lineaments there are no certifications. But the few facts which I have given as certified...are certainly helpful to the artist...
...heads the cast of classicists in the dual lead of king and commoner, Deborah Kerr is the provocative princess, James Mason the invidious villian, Jane Greer, a femina ex machina, and Louis Calhern the cunning colonel and tutor of tyrants. Louis Stone, who played the hero in the original version, appears briefly as the bishop...