Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopeful news. The acknowledged Hattie Carnegie of sack fashions - Vice President Richard Peek of Kansas City's million-dollar Percy Kent Bag Co., which supplies the nation's millers with most of their printed sacks-announced that he had not yet lost a single order because of dark flour...
...poolroom to work his way through City College. A Scottish Fabian, Thomas Davidson, woke Cohen to an interest in philosophy; as a scholarship student at Harvard, where he roomed with Felix Frankfurter, he became a protěgé of William James. Then came what Cohen refers to as "dark and weary years ... in the valley of humiliation." As a poorly paid mathematics teacher at City College, he barely made ends meet, vainly sought transfer to the philosophy department...
Zeus's Olympian family, crudely hacked out of oak and olive trunks, took possession of every sacred grove during the next four dark centuries (1100 B.C.-700 B.C.). But not until the Dorians began cutting down their oaks to build ships did marble and bronze bring immortality to their gods...
...Tall, dark & handsome Lieut. Colonel John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 35 and out of the A.A.F., had to decide a typical veteran's problem: did he want his old job back? His old job was chief editorial writer for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror. He asked himself a loaded question: "Why waste your time trying to in fluence people who move their lips when they read?" That...
...years of breath-taking success, these have carried him through, two Broadway musicals (Lady in the Dark, Let's Face It), two movies (Up In Arms, Wonder Man), 39 weeks of a new kind of radio show and numberless vaudeville appearances. This year, such activity will bring him more than...