Word: akin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most delightful Englishman of his time"); William Pitt (". . . passing from Fox to Pitt . . . is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home alone through streets solemn with midnight"); Pope ("Is it 'poetry'?"); Swift ("Swift's living brain was akin to other men's in dreams"); Defoe ("Defoe was less of an artist-by circumstances, temperament, or aspiration-than almost any other great writer in the range of English letters"); Dr. Johnson ("It is very wonderful that Johnson, throughout 50 years, should have gone on making comments that were...
...only, person in Harvard history to have won both the Garrison prize in Poetry and the Bowdoin prize in prose composition. He made Phi Beta Kappa and was graduated Summa Cum Lauda. In the next year he received a Henry fellowship, a scholarship to Oxford some-what akin to the Rhodes scholarships...
Bing Crosby got a telegram from the office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel William J. Donovan): "General MacArthur and Brig. Gen. Akin over private circuit have wired us specifically asking for you to broadcast to the men in the Philippines at Bataan Peninsula" -by short wave-"embracing, if possible, in the script that you hope the boys gallantly fighting are listening. . . . You might, if the policy O.K., the sponsor and agency permit, dedicate one of your songs to the soldiers...
Sirs: [The death notice of Bishop Warren Akin Candler-brother of the late Coca-Cola king, Asa Griggs Candler-TIME, Oct. 6] reminds me of an incident of the early "Gay Nineties"* in which Dr. Candler figured before he became a bishop, [about the time] Coca-Cola was invented...
Last week every nation faced a crisis, but none faced a crisis so complicated and peculiar as that of the U.S. It was no crisis akin to the violent one in Moscow, to the Cabinet overturn in Tokyo, to the tension in London; it was more nearly akin to the crisis of a fever, when the hearing is confused, the mind wanders, and fitful and disjointed images fill the brain. For the Nazis the advance on Mos cow was simple-this was the sixteenth time in two years they were moving upon the capital of another country. For the conquered...