Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war."-Homer: Iliad, XIII...
Once divorce has been allowed, there will be no sufficient means of keeping it in check within any definite bounds. Great is the force of example; greater still is that of lust. . . .-Pope Leo XIII...
...Japanese 6 Memorial Hall Mathematics 19a Memorial Hall Physics 71 (Eng'g. 271a) Memorial Hall Semitic 14 Memorial Hall 2.15 P.M. (XVII) Fine Arts 1x Fogg Small Rm. Fine Arts 9p Van Rensselaer Rm. French E Memorial Hall Greek 3hf Memorial Hall Greek 7hf Memorial Hall WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 (XIII) 9.15 A.M. Anthropology 2 Mallinckrodt MB 8 Architectural Sci. 10b Robinson Hall Biology 16 Mallinckrodt MB 8 Biology 29 Mallinckrodt MB 23 Chemistry B Mallinckrodt MB 9 Chemistry 6 Mallinckrodt MB 23 Economics 61a New Lect. Hall Economics 141 Emerson D Engineering Sci. 2a Pierce 307 English 3a Harvard...
...Alfonso XIII paid a visit to Madrid's School of Fine Arts. Unknown to the King, students were rushed from room to room to give the monarch the impression that the school was packed. Dali declares that he was so infuriated by this insult to the King that he waited until the school was empty, locked himself in the sculpture classroom, turned the faucet on full force. Says Dali: "My idea was very simple: to cause a great inundation of plaster. I used all the four sacks of plaster that were in the room. . . . As the [plaster] was greatly...
...manage hungry, impoverished Spain. His announcement, ostensibly timed to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Spanish civil war's beginning, coincided with Berlin reports that 29-year-old, non-hemophilic Don Juan of Bourbon would soon ascend the throne abdicated by his father, the late King Alfonso XIII. Taken together, the two developments led to one conclusion: Franco needed a whipping boy to share the onus of governing his hate-ridden people...