Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confusion of Moslem, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Serbs and Croats; 3) southeastern Serbia. Each section will have separate self-governing administrations for local affairs; the three provinces will remain united by a common throne and a central Government which retains ultimate control of finances, defense, foreign relations. Creation of provincial diets, because of constitutional limitations, must wait until King Peter comes of age. It was a nice settlement; big question mark was whether provincial autonomy might weaken the country to the extent of jeopardizing national autonomy. The Hungarians are just as anxious to grab the Croats, for instance...
...only solution of the Western problem lies in the more efficient creation of power by machinery," claimed William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia Gazette, in the last of three talks in the New Lecture Hall last night...
...over-emphasized the flexibility. Or perhaps, because of the strain of producing the picture, he has unconsciously let too much of the self-assured Producer filter into his portrayal of the lazy and dissolute Ted. Yet despite the defects of Laughton's acting, his skill in the creation of a distinguished production show that he has kept his place as one of the top-notch men in present-day moviedom...
...acres of cypress, fir and formal garden, with the delicate profile of the Apennines behind and the valley of the Arno below, Bernard Berenson applied his gifts of lucidity and feeling to the unsolved problems of Italian art. One of his earliest and most famous feats was the creation of a hypothetical Florentine artist, Amico di Sandro (Friend of Botticelli) to account for various pictures then attributed to Pollaiuolo, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and others. Rich dealers and collectors sought the advice of "B. B." on doubtful pictures. They paid him well for it-so well that Berenson became rich...
Although Fisk helped finance such projects as Bethlehem Steel and the Hudson Tubes, his most famed deal was the creation of American Locomotive Co. in 1901. Baldwin Locomotive Co. controlled two-fifths of the industry and Fisk obtained the necessary options to consolidate the rest into one firm...