Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outer yards, tower men set the switches for the Advance to roll onto the express track. Soon after, the nine-car Exposition Flyer wormed its scheduled way onto the same westward ribbon. The pair of silver streamliners whooshed along the flat Illinois roadbed at 80 m.p.h., three minutes apart...
...types of motivation the [strongest] is that associated with the true 'love of flying.' The pilot who has [it] is recognized by fellow flyers as being somewhat apart. They speak of him as being 'plane-crazy.' Not infrequently such an individual makes sexual analogies-with flying. The wife ... of such a man is truly an 'aviation widow...
...Russian and Western Easters seldom coincide, can be five weeks apart. Reason: the Orthodox Church, unlike the Soviet Government, has not adopted the Gregorian calendar...
...like Croly's tortured editorials, written in an agonized longhand-served its high purpose for 15 years: "to goad public opinion into being more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink, and his galaxy of talent flew apart. Often, under Bruce Bliven, the NR was peas-in-a-pod with the Nation and, for a brief period (1935), it adhered to a Marxist line.* By the time Willard Straight's son joined the staff, Croly's shadow on the magazine had faded to a faint blur...
...enemy. Strange palsies seized the hands of cartoonists when they were asked to depict Hitler; a poet who had made Germany laugh with his verses "On Hitler's Mustache" took to wearing a brown shirt. When Hitler's minions broke into the offices to tear them apart, they found a magazine that was already dead by its own hand...