Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Red hams add chatty notes to their cards. One QSL card arrived from Rumania bearing the casual, newsy footnote that a neighboring ham-his call letters were given-"has just been arrested...
...went the most famous trial in history. For centuries, scholars have argued over the legality of Jesus' trial. Some experts contend that the court's midnight meeting and its casual rules of procedure indicate that Jesus was not brought before the Sanhedrin (i.e., the supreme tribunal of the Jews), but before a synedrion, a political court and advisory body at the disposal of Caiaphas, the high priest...
Winter or ice finishing is fine for the casual athlete who can only operate with bursts of energy. The technique, practised wherever there is ice in New England, is to chip a simple hole in the ice, drop a hook and bait into the water. At the other end of the line you attach a wooden bob with a violent red flag on a short length of stick and lay same on the ice next to the hole...
...they chipped in and built the Avila Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. The deal paid off, but such casual choices as that and McDonnell aircraft were not satisfactory to the methodical Rockefellers. Three years ago the Rockefellers formed Rock Bros., to put their capital to work. They already had a treatise to guide them. David, the youngest of the family, who "works down at the bank" (Chase National), got his Ph.D. on "The Theory of Capital Resources and Economic Waste...
...manuscripts and papers except for one batch of letters and this little journal, which is a continuation of his Journal of Our Days, published in 1934. It begins with Nock setting out by steamer for Florida and ends after his 1935 vacation in Belgium. His notations are casual and apparently aimless: he notes the appearance of a handsome Jewess on the ship, the drab, suburban-New Jersey-type architecture of parts of Florida. He comments on book reviewers and publishers, Mrs. Roosevelt, Anthony Adverse, Shakespeare and the prose of subway advertisements. Someone told him that certain South Sea Islanders permitted...