Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started with a high pressure area from Alaska, which centered in New England over the weekend, and another high pressure area from the tropic which attracted a low pressure area in their wakes, according to Dr. Charles F. Brook of the Blue Hills Observatory. This low pressure area is responsible for the extreme heat and humidity which have plagued New England this week...
...pool in the grounds of a former Buddhist temple, gliding over the lake, the delegation seemed oblivious of the landing craft they had seen assembled along Shanghai's Whangpoo River, and of the Peking radio's loud declaration that China intended to liberate Formosa forthwith-and would "brook no U.S. occupation, no U.N. trusteeship, no neutralization...
Harry and Davy played every day, all the same, because they couldn't help it. They threw stones in the brook, and ran after the goats and the hens. But grandfather made them let the goats alone, and as for hens, as Davy said sadly one day, "They won't play." What Harry...
...CHARLES BROOK...
...given him time to mull, skimmed through magazines and newspapers. His prize cliché: the phrase claiming world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling denture cleaner" (Poli-dent); "World...