Word: wa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sullivan County, N. Y., to a German immigrant named Koch, Frederick Albert Cook wa's born in 1865. He worked his way through medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...
Wisla (Vistula) : vees-wa...
...Mlawa: Wa...
...Senso wa zuibun aku-eikyo wo atae-ta," said many a Japanese citizen in private last week. The sentence had to be said in private because it was a grave admission: "The war hits us pretty heavily." The Japanese have come to realize all too well that their adventure in China is now primarily a currency war rather than an orthodox military engagement. Last week they began to take official notice of the fact that in the currency war, China has both natural advantages and allies with cash, while Japan has neither...
...Tree, also from Brussels. Principal weakness of the exhibition in the eyes of modern students was the fact that it included only two pictures by Pieter Breughel the Elder, the dominant Flemish genius of the 16th Century. At time when the guilds were breaking up and Italian Renaissance influence wa; breaking in, Breughel painted mischievous magnificent scenes of everyday Flemish life. The Worcester exhibition left U. S students still obliged to go to Antwerp Brussels and Vienna to see his larger anc greater works...