Word: banke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then was unable to find a job that would support them both: "If there's fighting to do, the soldiers had better not get married. Half their hearts would be in the family, and only half in the fight." But the prim young wife of a Shanghai bank clerk spoke sharply for the rest: "Whenever men get into trouble, they blame women...
...have drifted down the Hudson-then a great, glacier-fed river. Some geologists believe that during the Pleistocene Age the ocean was lower because the glaciers that covered much of the land locked up so much water. So 2) the mastodon may have walked to the scallop bank on its own big feet...
...Manhattan's new $10 million, 22-story Universal Pictures Building on Park Avenue, visitors were introduced last week to the latest elevator wrinkle. In Universal's double bank of eight elevators the Otis Elevator Co. had installed the electronic "touch" system...
When he was quizzed during the Seabury investigations of 1931 he hauled out a wallet as big as a horse's nosebag and extracted his father-in-law's collar button and a wad of bank books which accounted for every aspect of his financial affairs...
...Robert Schuman, his storms proved more than figurative. On one of his solitary walks among the Left Bank bookstalls he was caught in a cloudburst, returned home drenched. His secretary scolded him. Said Schuman: "I suppose I have too much confidence." After a pause he added: "In a manner of speaking, of course...