Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted on the use of a few stock phrases ("As it must to all men, Death came . . .") as a trademark. The double-jointed adjectives and inverted sentences of the early days of TIME were tricks that he and Luce, both Greek scholars, had learned from Homer. Hadden applied them so brilliantly that the double-distilled result was hailed as a "new" style, and became TIME'S prose pattern...
...days later, as it must to all men, Death came to Briton Hadden...
...cutting near the peak of summer buying had not been heard of in years. But sales were still under last year's. Retailers were hastily trying to clear out old merchandise, notably textiles, as new, lower-priced dresses reflecting the wholesale price cuts of the past few months came in. For the first time in seven years, women could buy neat, fashionable dresses for less than...
When the great men of his own day came his way, Aubrey recorded every word he heard. Sir Isaac Newton and Philosopher Thomas Hobbes were his friends, and he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, where he knew John Dryden and Christopher Wren. No man to take irretrievable sides in 17th Century politics, he not only recorded Charles I's tall hunting stories but later listened to Cromwell declaiming at dinner that in all England Devon husbandry was best. When Charles II came home from exile, Aubrey was on hand again, recording the occasion when a Mr. Evans...
...defense, the Dartmouths didn't have much to do. With Hans Estin playing half of the game and sitting out the second half with a broken left foot, the Crimson attack was unhinged. Rick Hudner made a fine individual performance but it is significant that his one goal came on a pass, from Estin...