Word: browsings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus they walked beyond the town. "A small stone quarry, deserted and bleak, lay quite near to a still completely urban house. . . . Now they loosened their hold of K., who stood waiting dumbly, took oft their top hats and wiped the sweat from their brows with pocket handkerchiefs, meanwhile surveying...
Harvardevens Village, the spanking new home for 400 students and their families, isn't an overstuffed cherry bowl. Nor is, it for that matter, a thorny crown which the University is pressing on the brows of its married veterans. Being no exception to the rule on contentious subjects, the truth...
The Green Years (MGM) is one of those genteel and interminable stories of "character," "conflict" and "faith" which invariably impress lower-middle-brows as "big," "heartwarming" and, above all, "human."
There was no fuss or picketing. The mighty U.M.W., long since as disciplined as a squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker...
In life, as in death, Tai Li had been a partner of secrecy and violence. He was a legend-to his enemies, an Oriental Himmler, Plehve and Torquemada combined; to his friends, a ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His...