Word: exceptionality
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...King's pawn, and that the King was lukewarm on the war. Then when Italy invaded Egypt, extreme Wafdists accused him of forgetting his words of last August: "Egypt will declare war if her territory or her Army is the object of an attack." Never overly popular except with the King, Sabry Pasha by last week was the focus of some pretty strong hates...
Sabry Pasha began reading, firmly and clearly: ". . . Alliance with Great Britain . . . friendship with all nations except Britain's enemies . . . Britain spared Egypt many hardships. ..." Suddenly his voice faltered, then died away. He stood swaying for a moment, making a pathetic fluttering movement with his hands toward the President of the Senate. He crumpled to the floor...
Figure skating on rollers is similar to figure skating on blades-except that roller skaters use the heel & toe where ice skaters use the blade's edges. Both have approximately the same 41 school figures. At the Arena Gardens, which "skate about 6,000 a week" at 50? a head, Manager Martin offers a half hour's free instruction in figure skating, elementary or advanced dancing every night. His 30-year-old son Bob and 19-year-old daughter Marjorie, aided by two other professionals, teach figure skating all day, at 50? to $1.50 for a 20-minute...
...backwoods crowds gathered by the tracks at Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs, Palatka, DeLand, Kissimmee, Tampa, they went aboard to see the candidates for their favor: four heifers, one choice feed steer, one medium steer, one scrub steer, three dairy cattle, one big black Poland-China sow, eight pigs. Except for the scrub steer (brought along as a horrible example), all were sleek, handsome, groomed within an inch of their lives. Sharing their train were exhibits of various grasses, seed corn, peanuts, fencing methods ("Keep Ferdinand a Sissy with a Strong Fence"), poultry charts, pine seedlings, pruning tools, turpentining operations. While...
...example, $1,000,000,000 was spent by all three Governments last year; of this the city's own taxes (mainly real-estate) raised scarcely more than half. The rest was Federal and State contribution. But since real estate is already overtaxed, U. S. cities have no way (except by impossibly high sales taxes) to avoid reliance upon the Federal Government...