Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's Labor Minister Ernest Bevin broadcast a special May Day address to the workers of France, assuring them of Britain's sympathy...
...cinch it had been. His Esquire, launched in 1933-modeled on Apparel Arts with the addition of sexy cartoons and articles by big literary names such as Ernest Hemingway-was on the newsstands in December 1937 with its fattest issue ever-including 155 pages of ads. His Coronet, launched a year before (1936), was set to invade the profitable field occupied by Reader's Digest, and he was about to launch a newsmagazine to cut himself in on another field. Esquire, his big moneymaker, had become the darling of the barbershops and just hit a peak circulation...
Louis C. Graton, and Ernest B. Dane Jr., to build a microscope especially adapted for the study of ores...
...organization) loaded on the speedy ex-destroyers. One sunset the whole fleet sailed over the horizon. At dawn it was seizing a beach head on another Caribbean island. The First was gone a month on its full-scale exercise. Units of the Atlantic Fleet worked with them. Admiral Ernest Joseph King looked his approval as the landing parties were called away and the bronzed, hornyhanded sea soldiers went over the side into armored small boats. By that time the First was getting hard: men moved easily and quickly under their 40-lb. combat packs, 240 rounds of ammunition, bayoneted rifles...
Eliot proved infallible on the question of who played whom on baseball's opening day, and "Speaker" Ernest Lindley said, "I don't know what this world is coming to when the grandson of one of the Presidents of Harvard and a graduate himself knows so much about movies and baseball...