31.   Each was once the center of an empire, attracting titanic figures like Alexander, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane.

32.   During that period, major Communist Party figures like Deng Xiaoping, the current paramount leader, were purged.

33.   Each suite will be named after a World War II figure like Mussolini, Patton, Rommel, Churchill and others.

34.   Even a relatively minor figure like pianist Herbie Nichols benefits from the complete treatment.

35.   Even in the study of American literature, it took decades for us to have figures like Whitman and Melville considered as serious writers.

36.   Every state has a middle-school geometry standard about measuring figures like triangles, squares, prisms and cones.

37.   Figures like these suggest that racism does not account for all, or even most, of the difficulties encountered by native-born blacks.

38.   Figures like former Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, now a fugitive from justice in Tunisia, were accused to accepting huge bribes for political favors.

39.   Figures like Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt commanded enormous authority once the allies faced up to the threats posed by expansionist Germany and Japan.

40.   For his exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Schoener had included catalogue essays by established figures like Irving Howe and Lincoln Steffens.