Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consignment of 12 new poles arrived at Briggs Cage this week, and new blend Mike will be able to do at least several inches better and should easily crack 14 feet. As a matter of fact, when he broke the record set by Emil Dubiel (who was a star end on several football teams, as well as a track star), during the Eli meet, officials watching the proceedings attest to the fact that he sailed well over the bar, clearing it by inches...
...Well-Wishers. Joseph Stalin and his Red Army received congratulations from ranking Allied powers of the world. Douglas MacArthur sent his compliments from beleaguered Bataan: "The hopes of civilization rest on the worthy banners of the courageous Russian Army." From China's Chiang Kai-shek came a fine blend of commendation and suggestion: "I strongly believe the spiritual affinity between our two armies is bound to become practical collaboration in action...
...diplomatic training in the wholesale leather trade. Unless this volume of his reminiscences is hiding state secrets, the nearest he ever came to the world he wrote about was a short stretch of propaganda writing for one of the British special services during World War I. The peculiar Oppenheim blend of dispatch-box atmosphere, femmes fatales, double traitors, and a tight plot totting up to eventual victory for the British Intelligence-most of it came out of Oppenheim's head...
Little, Brownians are indeed the heirs of some hoary publishing traditions, but they manage to blend them with the latest thing in reading taste. The blend is embodied in the person of Little, Brown's President Alfred R. Mclntyre (whose father was also a president), and in a list that combines new best-sellers with...
...citizenry (178,000) is an anthropologist's dream. Below the 1,000 Dutch is a weird blend of Javanese, British Indian, Chinese, aboriginal Indian and Bush Negro. The Negroes are descendants of 17th-Century imported African slaves, who live and dress much like their savage forefathers, but still speak a kind of stubborn English.* Surinam produced 615,434 tons of bauxite in 1940, exported all of it to the U.S. The chief bauxite mine is at Moengo, up the narrow Cottica River close to the boundary of Dutch and French Guiana...