Word: originally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving Warsaw to visit Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath in Berlin, roundly declared: "The present world crisis is primarily a League crisis, caused by the League's failures. . . . The fact that the League from its inception did not embrace all countries, and particularly the stronger countries,* was the origin of this crisis...
Nearly two months ago the music of Jean Sibelius' Origin of Fire, carefully wrapped in two separate packages, was mailed by Leipzig Publishers Breitkopf & Haertel to Boston Symphony's Conductor Koussevitzky. Last week, with the U. S. premiere of the lamed Finn's work scheduled for immediate performance, Boston Symphony officials, still awaiting the appearance of one of the packages, telegraphed frantically to Leipzig. The publishers, equally frantic, located the only other copy in Europe, telephotoed it to Berlin, whence it was transmitted by radio facsimile to the U. S. Relieved Koussevitzky hired transcribers, got the parts...
Another result was that Morgan paradoxically became a conservative, straitlaced, churchgoing U. S. businessman, withal a radical hero. Friedrich Engels, after reading Morgan's studies of primitive man, corrected The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels drew on Morgan's findings on primitive family relationships in writing The Origin of the Family. Meanwhile, Morgan settled in Rochester, N. Y., married a cousin, became a director in railway & mining companies and piled up $100,000 before he died in 1881. He was elected State senator in 1867, but his legislative career was notable only for his attempt to block...
...face of a man whom he caught in the act of robbing his father's pear orchard, Tom at fourteen was sent off to London to study painting. In four years he was supporting himself. At twenty he fell in love with Margaret Burr, a young lady of confused origin who possessed many charms, including an annuity of $1000. After painting her portrait, he married her and settled in Ipswich...
...wish to speak of an affair the size of which, both in the money spent and the origin of the arms seized, represents terrible gravity...