Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right is Reader Gore. Only Manhattan's whopping Chase National is Digger than Bank of America...
Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
...Parish Church? About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, comes a report that the Church, Parish House and adjoining buildings had burned down, and that Father Superior and Father Schiffer had been seriously injured and that they had taken refuge in Asano Park on the river bank. Hurriedly, we get together two stretchers and rush toward the city...
Ruin in the City. The closer we get, the greater is the evidence of destruction. Houses at the outskirts are all severely damaged. Further in, all dwellings have been consumed by fire. We make our way to the street on the river bank. Twice we are forced into the river itself by the heat and smoke. All along we meet frightfully burned people. By the wayside are many dead and dying. On the Misasi Bridge we are met by a procession of soldiers who have suffered burns. Abandoned on the bridge, there stand with sunken heads a number of horses...
Paul Julius Reuter, a German bank clerk, started his business 97 years ago in a pigeon loft at Aix-la-Chapelle, soon expanded into a ubiquitous emissary of the Victorian empire...