Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than doubled as a consequence of the War, and that the population of our Capital increased from 300,000 to 1,000,000. . . . The contract call's for payment of $100,000,000 over fifteen years. . . . Rumania has met all her bond issues up to Monday of this week. In fact she is one of the few countries that have met all their outstanding obligations...
...revamp Rumania's housing are those of Maurice Blumenthal, co-builder of the Pennsylvania Railroad's sub-Hudson River tunnels, and David M. Oltarsh, whose achievements include four Childs restaurants and Fifth Avenue's smartmart, Kurzman. Mr. Blumenthal and Major Oltarsli each managed to announce last week that his firm was participating in the contract without mentioning the other. Architect for "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe" will be H. Craig Severance, who devised the new 72-story Bank of Manhattan Co., now building at No. 40 Wall Street. Their scouts report that "the modernistic trend...
Kneeling with devout mien near the poor box adjacent to the Altar of Confession in St. Peter's last week, one Giuseppe de Palois stealthily extracted from his breast pocket a slender, quivering piece of whalebone...
...first two babes born in the new State are already dead, but the third was gurgling and cooing last week...
Marching two-by-two, 40 terrified schoolchildren of Kesarion, suburb of Athens, were chivied along the sidewalk last week. The older children clenched their hands bravely beneath their black pinafores. The younger howled lustily and unashamed. They were going to the hospital. It was useless for patient teachers to explain that they were merely going to the hospital to have their eyes examined in accordance with the Government's physical culture program. To children of all Balkan countries, "hospital" is a most terrible word. "Hospital" is where you die, where they torture children, cut off their ears...