Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge temporary shed of bamboo and matting at torrid Tripuri drove an ambulance one day last week. A patient was carried into the shed and put on a cot between two big ice tanks. Lying there, sipping cooling drinks and medicines, occasionally bidding two young nieces fan his brow, the patient tried to forget a temperature of over 100 as he presided over the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress...
Before 35,000 cheering Germans and Slovaks at Bratislava, German Minority Leader Franz Karmasin shouted: "Germans of Slovakia will fight shoulder to shoulder with the young Slovak people...
...late King Albert was pro-French to the core, but his son, the present young and earnest King Leopold III, has consistently appeased the Flemings. Against this rising Flemish tide the Walloons have become desperate. On the battlefield of Waterloo recently leading Walloon orators significantly spoke of ties with France, just as the Flemish Nationalists look toward The Netherlands. Never before in Belgium's history has the unity of the country been so threatened...
...Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir to the Russian throne, whom he has murdered. Last week, its last this season, the Metropolitan revived Boris for one of its best bassos, Ezio Pinza. Though Pinza was longer on voice than Chaliapin, and equal to him in build and makeup, critics agreed that the haunt still held...
...doctors, lawyers, diplomats, Army and Navy officers. Less costly ($950 a year) and less swank than such Eastern schools as Miss Porter's (Farmington) or Foxcroft, Stephens nevertheless has luxurious dormitories. a stable of 36 horses, a country club and other necessary equipment for turning out elegant young ladies. But fertile-brained James Madison ("Daddy") Wood, Stephens' president, believes that elegance is not enough. Eighteen years ago he hired an expert to find out what women do besides being elegant, learned that they busied themselves with 7,400 activities. To prepare his students for these-including a variety...