Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like U.S. Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, he insists on team play in the air and will stand for no Hell's Angels antics from his fighters. Officially credited with 28 German ships. Finucane for months has led a squadron made up of Australians, Czechs, French, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Canadians, South Africans, Hollanders and Britons...
Died. William James Tatem, Lord Glanely, 74, Welsh shipping tycoon, famed breeder and racer of horses; killed by a German bomb; in a southwest English coast town. He founded one of the world's greatest stud farms, at Exning, once had more horses in training than the Aga Khan and Lord Derby, won more than 500 races. His Grand Parade won the Derby...
...bulk of last year's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscars were awarded to Twentieth-Century-Fox's "How Green Was My Valley." That these honors were bestowed on the movie adaptation of Richard Lewellyn's novel of life and death in a Welsh mining town was as good a way as any to prove that Hollywood still knows what art and science in a film are, and what they can contribute to an epic picturization of a beautiful and moving story...
Unfortunately the play is subject to serious criticism on the grounds of unoriginality in both idea and treatment. The story of a philanthropic spinster attempting to educate Welsh miners and her discovery of a man of great talent among them hardly makes a sufficiently interesting plot even though the author, Emlyn Williams, has added many complications along the road to education. The wiles of a bottle of rum and a serving wench are almost enough to put an end to the spinster's hopes but she finally is successful in getting the brilliant miner a scholarship to Oxford. The situation...
...work in botany. Romer's 2a, which used to be a full course, has been cut in half, with no corresponding reduction of subject matter. It is a hard but necessary course, and not to take it would be scholastic suicide. 2b on invertebrates by Bigelow and Welsh is more elastic, not so essential, and can be covered by the reading