Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sector of Berlin last week, a thin-faced German picked up a copy of the Daily Bulletin, a Mimeographed paper for American employees of the occupation government. The first item caught...
Then the war ended with a whimper. Vasily-Wilhelm hid out in the Carpathians among the Hutzuls, a poor Ukrainian mountain people whom he soon captivated with his Viennese charm. Then he caught typhoid fever...
...north Mediterranean climate. After the invention of the chimney and other body warmers, civilization throve best in North Europe and America, where the cold, changeable climate kept minds alert. The next great extension of civilization, speculated Huntington, may be into Russia: the technique of keeping warm has just about caught up with Russia's extra-stimulating cold...
Refreshingly different from other college libraries in its minimum fines and restrictions, Widener is loath to revert to the edict of 1931 and expel every student caught defacing a book. But in view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come...
...Southampton, England, camera-shy Greta Garbo, homeward bound, failed to shy fast enough, got caught again in that same wonderful old hat (see cut). But she arrived back in Manhattan at the top of her form: after two months of travel & observation in churning Europe, she had nothing...