Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the Republicans and the Democrats believe in ancestor worship. Last week the G.O.P. made its annual bow to the shade of Lincoln; this week the Democrats will honor their heavenly twins, Jefferson and Jackson. Harry Truman would make his obeisance to tradition by sitting down with a repentant Jim Farley at the Democrats' Jackson-Jefferson Day dinner in Washington...
Last night the harassed "fools" torture continued at their Bow Street emporium, from whence issued shouts and sounds of shattering glass
...been more concerned about Joe's case than Swedish-born Ragnar Nelson, a dapper, bow-tied Republican assemblyman who sold insurance on the side. "Rags" Nelson sponsored Joe's bill in the legislature, helped push it through both houses...
Canada, which had only one sure string to its Olympic bow, had to wait eight days to score a point. Then Glamor Girl Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2), with grace and precision, outshone 24 competitors to win the women's Olympic figure-skating championship. Her victory was so big an event in Canada that Prime Minister Mackenzie King personally wired her congratulations, and announced his action, amid cheers, in Ottawa's House of Commons. Final winners: Sweden (with 82 points), followed by Switzerland...
Equlpped with the means to provide seismologists a complete picture of what is happening inside the earth during quakes, a new kind of earthquake-recorder made its bow at the University Seismograph Station late last month...