Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cigaret with a built-in ash tray-fine glass' fibers that hold the ashes as the cigaret burns...
Franklin Roosevelt brushed an ash from his shirt front, said (perhaps to forestall peace "negotiators"): The good judgment of Italians cannot be proved, of course, until the Germans have been driven from Italian soil...
...With Ash Can & Grater. Lithium's industrial champion is chunky, soft-spoken Harold J. Ness, who began experimenting with the restless metal during the depression, when his work as a metallurgist with a forging company slackened. His first laboratory was his coalbin, and the first lithium furnace was made from ash cans. The lithium was powdered with a common kitchen cheese grater...
...with considerable hauteur, Eliot professed himself an Anglo-Catholic, a royalist and a classicist, and the chaplet of lyrics (Ash Wednesday) which celebrated his conversion remains the most richly beautiful of his poems. In the '30s, taking hints in diction from his brilliant junior W.H. Auden, he wrote the poetic dramas Murder in the Cathedral and Family Reunion. Now, at an age (54) when the talent of many good poets is dead and buried, he publishes the harvest of his last seven years, these four "quartets." Of all his poems they are the most stripped, the least obviously allusive...
...their games with Eliot and Kirkland. The 13 to 5 victory over the Elephants was just a matter of pilling up runs behind the stellar pitching of Norm Cameron. The 13 to 1 walk over Kirkland came when the Bunny swatters got their eye on the Deacons pitcher, Ash Carter...