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  • 21Introduction —    Germany, during the years between 1933 and 1945, was a state organized around the principle of race. Rudolph Hess, Hitler’s confidant, was not being facetious when he defined National Socialism as applied biology. To the Nazis, paraphrasing… …

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  • 22Chronology —    ♦ 1933 23 January: The Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution advancing the start of congressional sessions and moving the presidential inauguration from March to January, thus ending the so called “lame duck” sessions, passed by Congress on… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era

  • 23EVIAN CONFERENCE — EVIAN CONFERENCE, conference of 32 nations convened but not attended by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on July 6–14, 1938, at the Hôtel Royal in Evian on the French side of Lake Geneva to consider the plight of refugees – the euphemistic way …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 24tackey — Tacky Tack y, n. [Written also {tackey}.] An ill conditioned, ill fed, or neglected horse; also, a person in a like condition. [Southern U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 25Tacky — Tack y, n. [Written also {tackey}.] An ill conditioned, ill fed, or neglected horse; also, a person in a like condition. [Southern U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 26Ven. John Finch —     Ven. John Finch     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ven. John Finch     A martyr, b. about 1548; d. 20 April, 1584. He was a yeoman of Eccleston, Lancashire, and a member of a well known old Catholic family, but he appears to have been brought up… …

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  • 27Constant Tonegaru — Constant (Constantin) Tonegaru Born February 26, 1919(1919 02 26) Galaţi Died February 10, 1952(1952 02 10) (aged 32) Bucharest Occupation poet, journalist, activist, civil servant …

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  • 28IMPETIGO —    a cutaneous eruption, generally in clusters, of yellow scaled pustules, which grow thicker and larger; common among children ill fed and ill cared for …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 29starveling — I. a. Lean, meagre, lank, emaciated, gaunt, skinny, scraggy, raw boned, hungry, thin, attenuated, ill fed, ill conditioned. II. n. Pauper, mendicant, beggar …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 30atrophy — noun (plural phies) Etymology: Late Latin atrophia, from Greek, from atrophos ill fed, from a + trephein to nourish Date: 1601 1. decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue; also arrested development or loss of a part or organ… …

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