Word: adorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crucifix, a Spanish flag, and a Spanish poem adorn the walls of a stark, windowless room in Buenos Aires. Translated, the poem reads...
Monday morning will find our Officer Candidates and their families and friends in Potter Auditorium for the final meeting of the class. Long coveted gold bars will adorn the shoulders of the newly-made Second Lieutenants after the ceremony of graduation is completed. Class 7-43 is to be honored by the presence of Colonel Byron E. Gates, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Management Control, Army Air Forces, and possible other representatives from Headquarters Army Air Forces...
...grey, but at 69 George Humble is all set to ship out. Retired from the Navy 20 years ago as chief carpenter's mate, he broke out his old uniform again last week, prepared to work towards another hash mark to add to the swatch of eight that adorn his sleeve already (they represent 32 years' service). Sailor Humble began his career as a blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back in 1901, when some Jap cops in Yokohama...
...senior class used to go about $2,-000 in the hole every year. Morse found that 1) each class automatically ordered 10,000 folding chairs for Class Day, although 4,000 were never unfolded; 2) tradition dictated that bay trees must adorn Class Day dances, although the only bay trees available, always rented from the same company, had become "mangy" from age, storms and costly trips to & from Cambridge; 3) Japanese lanterns were strung up at an annual cost of $1,000 long after the arrival of daylight saving made them unnecessary. Morse cut Class Day and Commencement chair costs...
...GLAMOR GIRL, Advertisers should be glad;-To adorn each subway ad with a girl like...