Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beacon of the German exit was smoking, demolished Salonika (Thessalonike), chief port of Macedonia. It was through Salonika that the Germans had supplied the Aegean islands, through Salonika that they moved back out of the Mediterranean. The "coveted city" that "crouches on the edge of the hill and touches the sea with her feet" is a major Balkan port, served as an Allied base in World War I. Destroyed by a famous two-day fire in 1917, it was rebuilt as a modern city. Last week it was a shambles again; more than 50 ships had been sunk...
...purchase of the fourth largest U.S. afternoon paper (circ. 434,938),* trim, balding John Shively Knight became one of the nation's most potent publishers. He was already one of the most prosperous. His Akron Beacon-Journal, Miami Herald and Detroit Free Press are smoothly run, highly profitable...
...this week, had come up fast in eleven years. Starting as an ad-taker and reporter, with time out for service in World War I as lieutenant and air observer, he had run two small Ohio papers, finally became managing editor of his father's Akron Beacon-Journal. But until his father died in 1933, no one in Akron noticed much about Cornell-trained Jack Knight except that he was a pleasant fellow with a flair for good clothes and winning at golf. His father's death left the Beacon-Journal with a load of depression debt. Akron...
...Christian Beacon, funda mentalist weekly, a hue & cry arose, startled the Navy Department into reviewing the Gatlin case. Chaplain Gatlin was invited back, put under the district chaplain of the Third Naval District (New York, Connecticut, part of New Jersey), who told him to "follow the leadership of the Lord" in his duties...
...group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...