Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other than financial-involves a gigantic architectural indecision and eventual about-face. In 1911, after the choir and sanctuary had been built in heavy Romanesque, a new architect (the late Ralph Adams Cram) decided to go Gothic. Today St. John's is Gothic fore & aft, with a great chunk of Romanesque amidships. The odd combination of Gothic's aspiring points and lacy frets with Romanesque's rounded arches is still bedeviling builders...
When Hollywood bites off a chunk like this and fills in with technicolor, things usually get very heady and cloying; the British (take another look at "On Approval") maintain a carefree buoyancy which aims at entertainment instead on Academy Awards...
...short, WPB will take its hands off a big chunk of U.S. industry, free enough materials so that it can make what it wants. Only on scarce materials, such as rubber, tin, textiles and lumber, will WPB keep a tight hold...
...variety of Americana that banks for its appeal not on song or humor or tone alone, but on a coherent blend of the three. It steals into the imagination in a salty sort of way at the opening curtain and leaves one feeling he has really glimpsed a hearty chunk of our nation's spirit...
...hotel bar and shouted: "You don't have to figure what this rock runs to the ton; it assays by the pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point in four years...