Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this much could be published: that the Governments of the U.S., the Soviet Union, China and Britain had determined to cooperate in peace as in war, to collaborate economically, to write the peace jointly and maintain it, forswearing suspicions which had kept them apart...
...took the highest court in the British Empire-Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London-to pull the battlers apart, get them to sign a truce. Last March this tribunal decided a four-year-old Canadian suit, bluntly told Coca-Cola it had no exclusive right to the word "cola," because it came from the African cola (or kola) nut, was thus public property...
...been a ceaseless air experimenter: in 1929 he made the first complete blind flight. A second lieutenant in World War I, he chafed at being kept at San Diego as an instructor. He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost, extinct flightless bird, and from the "modock," legendary aviation term for a "bird that flies backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes...
...apart from music by real live people, I can recommend the soundtrack of "Syncopation" at the RKO Boston, which has the finest jazz recorded on it of any movie I can remember, including "Second Chorus" and every picture featuring a name band. It's encouraging to hear Bunny Berigan, who does nearly all of the trumpet work, in top form again...
...intervals he returned to the porch railing to cut loose again with 30 seconds of human scream-bombing. The first-aid ladies found him handily- he could be heard for blocks. When one formally asked the nature of his injury, he solemnly recited: "Pregnant woman, with pains five minutes apart...