Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheer...
Part of the crowd waited while the two lunched and then responded to their emergence by some polite applause, without so much as a Regular Cheer for the Pandit. As rubbernecks goggled, Nehru visited Lamont and Houghton Libraries. In the Lamont reading room he asked, wide-eyed, "And can the students borrow these books?"--followed by some uneasy moments while University officialdom tried to recall the right answer...
Leading the market were the television shares, notably Admiral Corp., which declared a 100% stock dividend. For those who still swore by the Dow theory, regardless of its confusing "signals," there was also reason to cheer. The railroad average, lagging behind the industrial, now broke through last March's "resistance" point. To some Dow theorists, that was a sign that a bull market was in the making...
...been carried on. In the summer of 1946, when Bonn's war-ruined university was reestablishing itself in a half-blasted castle, Theologian Barth was invited to return. Lecturing at 7 o'clock in the morning, "after we had sung a psalm or a hymn to cheer us up," competing with the racket of rubble-clearing machinery outside his classroom, Barth spoke, without notes, on the Apostles' Creed. The 24 lectures that resulted deal, phrase by phrase, and in some instances word by word, with this oldest confession of the Church...
...Harvards got so brave they began using psychological warfare on the Corps. Crimson rooters, remembering the Army-Navy fend over military strategy, sent up a new cheer: "Aircraft carrier! Aircraft carrier...