Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gilpin noted an important distinction between the North American and other sections of this belt. North America was a huge concave bowl, sloping into the central Mississippi Valley. This made communication easy, helped trade, brought people together, promoted harmony, made for a fundamental geographical unity. The result, he predicted, would be an immense growth in U.S. wealth, an eventual population of more than a billion...
...left his tickets at home. Recalling that a neighbor was planning to come to town, the farmer got KFBB to ask the neighbor to go to the farmer's house, enter by way of a loose kitchen screen, and get the tickets out of the blue sugar bowl in the cupboard...
...track, though the gasoline shortage in Florida is so acute that big trucks operated by the Overseas Transportation Co. to carry food to isolated Key West are unable to get enough gas to keep to their schedules. That afternoon 28,000 cheering football fans jammed the Orange Bowl for the Louisiana State-Texas Aggies game...
...once again created an impression of another violent battle in a continuous, violent war. The impression was exaggerated: the battle of Changteh was violent enough, but it was an interlude in an essentially unviolent war. As in previous foraging expeditions, the Japs had pushed into the Tungting Lake rice bowl of central China. The Chinese 57th Division fought with hand grenades and bayonets until only 300 were left, then escaped from the stricken city...
...program. Growled The Durante, of Paul Whiteman's musicians: "What a band! What a band! I had an uncle once who could play like Whiteman. He played two instruments at the same time. With the left side of his mouth he played Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries. With the right side of his mouth he played Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree. And with the middle of his mouth he blew out the seeds...