Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scholarships founded by, or named after, certain classes usually give preferences to descendants of the members of the class. The Class of '41 has established a fund which will provide, first of all for sons of War Dead of the Class of '1 and, secondly, for other sons of the class...
...great steel mills lay cool and dead and some 500,000 steelworkers hit the streets. Another 500,000 would be called out of steel-fabricating plants the minute Philip Murray thought the right strategic moment had come. In a slower, creeping fashion-if the shutdown lengthened-unemployment would spread to railroads, auto plants, thousands of steel-dependent factories. In the wink of an eye last week, the nation's economic backbone was paralyzed by the first industry-wide steel strike since the walkout...
With a last cry of "Ellen!" the old man dies, and with him, unknown to the castle servants and Mrs. Tennant, dies the groaning old world of aristocratic England. Stuffing the precious notebooks into his striped-pants pocket, Charley Raunce boldly seats himself in the dead man's high chair at the head of the servants' table, determined to carry on a way of life that actually has ceased to exist. He is now "Mr. Raunce," butler-king of the castle; as he surveys the long table-the older servants mourning the dear departed, the housemaids...
Lewisohn, who spoke third on the Forum program, bitterly attacked the modern American novel as something "stone dead" and condemned the entire movement of naturalism in American literature since Dreiser. He claimed that modern American writers had "taken the cast-off rags of James Joyce and tricked out their prose in them" as a last attempt to make their books seem meaningful...
...centuries, translators in more than 100 languages have proved how right the old knight was. English translations of Don Quixote have either been pieced together by literary archeologists who treat each word as a rare old bone, and with admirable patience assemble them into a dead monster; or have been cribbed by publishers' hacks from French translations, with an eye on the dictionary and an ear to the gallery...