Word: adame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam & the Archbishop...
...Archbishop Gushing of Boston blames the women for the "coarse and vulgar" modern world [TIME, May 14] ? So did Adam: "The woman Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree...
...joined molecules of dust and shook them till their name was Adam...
...first town to be christened by free Americans is one of hundreds in this fascinating 418-page "Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States" by George R. Stewart (Bret Harte, TIME, Dec. 21. 1931 ; Storm, TIME, Dec. 1, 1941). Its 2,000-odd place names run from Adam-and-Eve Alley to Zigzag...
...General Motors Corp. slashed $46.9 million off its overseas investments, which it had carried at a book value of $96.5 million in 1941. Biggest G.M. write-off was the $35 million G.M.-owned Adam Opel A.G. auto and truck manufacturing works at Rüsselsheim, Germany. No G.M. official has any authentic information about the damage done to Opel when the R.A.F. heavily bombed the plant twice last summer. But the obvious conclusion was that the damage reports by bomber pilots satisfied the economic warfare experts in London who had Opel marked for a knockout...