Word: heroical
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More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...
...depression comes. Construction ceases and maintenance is cut to the minimum. Slim, during one of his periodic spells in the hospital, has fallen in love with his nurse. But when she tries to get him to take a softer job, he rebels. Even out of work Slim remains the heroic lineman. They would need him, he figures, even during the revolution...
...suitable place on Central Park preferably on 59th Street." By the time his sons placed the statue where he desired they had spent out of pocket $10,000 more than the bequest. For the sake of symmetry the Pulitzers also had to pay for moving Augustus St. Gaudens' heroic General Sherman on horseback, on the other side of 59th Street. When everything was completed in 1915 and water began to flow into a series of Kentucky limestone basins. General Sherman found himself headed straight for the Lady of the Plaza. For years their affair across 59th Street...
...students approached, jeering the Korps, shouting "Heil Hitler!" At this the nabobs attacked, starting the bloodiest riot seen in years at Gottingen. To stop it shocked professors called the police who called firemen who rushed to the scene with all Gottingen's fire engines and restored order by heroic squirting...
...first U. S. job was carving belt buckles on Civil War monuments in a Boston atelier. He went to Manhattan in 1911, started work under Paul Manship, also a hewer of the heroic. He did the actual carving on the Manship memorial tablet to J. Pierpont Morgan (Metropolitan Museum), worked on the surface texture of Manship's head of John Davison Rockefeller. By the time he left Manship to open a studio of his own he was earning $100 a week, was a naturalized citizen...