Lila Wallace founded the “Reader’s Digest” along with her husband in 1922, and initially operated out of a basement office in New York City. 29 Reader’s Digest co-founder Wallace : LILA He is a wizard known as Gandalf the Grey during his lifetime, and as Gandalf the White after he returns from the dead. Tolkien novels “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Gandalf is an important character in the J. MPs (military police officers) often track down personnel who go AWOL (absent without leave). The term “faux pas” is French in origin, and translates literally as “false step” (or “false steps”, as the plural has the same spelling in French). 18 Commits an email faux pas : REPLIES ALL The 1931 Rudy Vallee version was re-released that year and became an even bigger hit second time round. Poor Dooley didn’t get to record it as a single, due to a musician’s strike in 1943. But today we all remember the Casablanca version, sung by Dooley Wilson (who played “Sam” in the film). The signature song “As Time Goes By” was written many years earlier for a 1931 Broadway musical called “Everybody’s Welcome”, and was a hit in 1931 for Rudy Vallee. The film wasn’t a box-office hit, but gained critical acclaim, winning three Oscars including Best Picture. The movie “Casablanca” was released in January of 1943, timed to coincide with the Casablanca Conference, the high-level meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill. 17 To whom Rick says, “The Germans wore gray. Our word “azure”, a shade of blue, has the same root. “Lapis Lazuli” is Latin for “stone of Lazhward”, referring to the Persian name for the location where the stone was mined. Lapis lazuli is a blue, semi-precious stone mined mainly in Afghanistan. Harrows break up and smooth just the surface soil, often after plowing. Plows are used to bring deep soil to the surface, and to bury weeds so that they decay and release nutrients. Harrows and plows have similar uses, in that they both break up the soil.
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