Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expense of France. The essential basis of Italy's claim to these places is an Italian population, sometimes as much as ten percent sometimes not so much. The Fascisti are breeding with extraordinary proclivity. Mr. Mussolini's theory is to spread his population over the face of the earth and when there are enough of them in one spot--annexation. The opportunities for the old Roman Empire are tremendous and after the France-Italian-war is over it will be time for the eastern seaboard of the United States to watch out. Meanwhile the situation is not one that...
...story glass-walled residential tower built on the cantilever principle; a mammoth skyscraper for the Chicago offices of National Life Insurance Co., whose walls involve a minimum of masonry, whose multitudinous windows are accented horizontally instead of vertically. Architect Wright conceives of architecture as joined substantially with the earth. With the horizontal line, even in skyscrapers, he emphasizes this union. Comment at and on his Manhattan show must have persuaded Architect Wright that he had lived to see his own time...
...took notice when, last week in Manhattan, the Union of Sephardic Congregations held its second annual meeting. Ail Jewry is divided into two groups?the Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Of the latter there are comparatively few left in the world. Yet once the Sephardim were the most powerful Jews on earth...
...disinterred for more impressive burial in a silver-mounted coffin case, with chanting and eulogies. Said Actor Jesse A. Shipp (Green Pastures), oldtime fishing companion of Gilpin: "We have been criticized for disturbing the dead, but our friend was buried near a railroad track where the earth rumbled, and his bones could not rest in peace...
...madman, Alexander of Macedonia, some 2253 years ago engaged in a classically long and hard drinking bout. After many days the quantity of iced, fermented honey that passed down his gullet weakened him, killed him. Expiring in Babylon, a stopping-off point on his insane meandering path about the earth, he left no trace of his tomb...