Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That amazing mechanism, the human eye, adjusts itself to Los Angeles in a matter of hours. The optic nerves grow submissive before the red glare of geraniums, the flash of windshields, the sight of endless and improbable vistas of pastel stucco. Even on his first, casual, hundred-mile drive the pilgrim achieves a kind of stunned tranquillity, and gazes unblinkingly at palace-studded mountains, rat-proofed palms, and supermarkets as big as B-2Q hangars...
City on Wheels. Los Angeles became the first big city of the automobile age. Its citizens worship the fishtail Cadillac, use their cars for almost all transportation (there is one car for every 2.6 persons-the nation's highest average), drive up to traffic lights like ballplayers sliding into second, and regard the pedestrian with suspicion and distrust...
Frank Murphy, ex-governor of Michigan, onetime Attorney General, the court's only Roman Catholic, a man of humanitarian impulses without the intellectual drive and capacity to make himself highly effective...
Cantor, Donald Jerome of 50 Brookline Drive, West Hartford, Conn.; Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. Cudhes, David Woodbury of 11 Laton Street, Nashua, N. H. Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, N. H. Curran, Robert Louis of 155 Lancaster Street, Providence, R. I.; Hope High, Providence...
...Pomfret Conn. Mason, James William of 2005 Dalton Rr., Greensboro, N. C.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Newbury, Samuel Parkman of 2 Newton Street, Weston. Mass.; Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. Nichols, John Doane of Clinton Avenue, Westport, Conn.; Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. Petschek, Stephen Ronald of Southlawn, Birchall 'Drive, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...