Word: erful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dome," designed for Burlington by General Motors engineers and stylists, has laminated, heat-&-ray-resistant glass top and sides, air conditioning, and 24 seats from which passengers can survey the landscape o'er...
Chance. In Detroit, the Free Press ran an advertisement: "Wanted: a brave girl to stand against a 48-inch board and al low Rajah Raboid, Sensational Mind Read er, to throw knives around her body with both eyes sealed. ... A $2,500 life in surance policy presented to the girl chosen...
...didn't realize our own strength. . . . There is no telling what the Japanese might do if we were to provoke them editorially. They might even-oops, there we go again. Well, as we were saying, Mr. Price, the Far Eastern situation is fraught with interest, and, uh-er-pregnant with possibilities and, so far as the home-front situation is concerned, it's the very devil of a job to publish a newspaper in the face of censorship inanities...
...joyful departure from the City of Cologne In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fank'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined and separate stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine...
...Collier has continued to be just what he was before he became a public official: the best friend the American Indian ever had. As social worker and Government man, John Collier has indignantly stood out against the prevailing U.S. opinion that the Indians are not only shiftless ne'er-do-wells but also a decadent, dying race. A visit to the Pueblos in New Mexico in 1920 ("The first time I ever came face to face with a Utopia") made him decide to fight for the Indian's right to keep his old life and culture...