Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a 14-lb., double-barreled elephant rifle, Klein made hunting history. Together with another white hunter named Leslie Simpson, he led a safari of man-drawn oxcarts into virgin territory in Tanganyika, discovering what later became known as the "Lion Pasture," the best lion country in the world...
...modern organists enjoy the sort of fame obtainable in most other fields of instrumental music. U.S. top rankers, be sides Weinrich, include E. Power Biggs of Harvard University; Ernest White of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Manhattan; Dr. T. Tertius Noble...
...Quebec, where men often demand freedom to evade the fight for freedom, opposition to conscription reached strange extremes : In Sherbrooke, Gunner Lucien Rocheleau testified that Mrs. Theodore Provencher had told him to wrap a religious, picture in blue silk (color of the Virgin Mary), hang it around his neck. Then she had given him a special prayer to read on nine consecutive nights, finally some pills to make him sick and insure his discharge from the army. For these services his mother paid Mrs. Provencher $16. The Mounted Police charged...
Other Dominion Prime Ministers talked of such complex matters as unified foreign policy, Dominion spheres of influence, but Sir Godfrey's aim was simple. He wanted only the right people to exploit a virgin land...
...years the $462,000,000 International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. helplessly watched the Axis overrun one of its properties after another, from France to Shanghai, watched its earnings nose-dive with each new blitz. But last week hawk-nosed, Virgin Island-born I. T. & T. President Sosthenes Behn released an annual report for 1943 which showed that the war is finally working for, instead of against, his globe-girdling behemoth...