Word: es
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France there were no balloons for sale at the Rond Point on the Champs Elysées, but youngsters still sailed their boats on the Luxembourg Gardens pond. In the southern provinces housewives hung wooden-bead curtains over the doors to keep out the flies...
...might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico, the letter "j" is pronounced "h," and that "i" is pronounced as a long "e," and that many words we would begin with "s" are in Spanish begun with "es," the professor's paper becomes understandable and genial...
...trade name that had been synonymous with aspirin below the border for 25 years. Sterling hit on the name of Mejoral (derived from mejor, meaning better in Spanish) and let fly with a terrific sales campaign that has left South Americans groggy-but full of Mejoral. During 1942 "Mejoral es mejor," Sterling's new slogan, poured from 230 radio stations in 7,000 half-hour programs, 5,200 quarter-hours, 4,700,000 spot announcements. (In parrot-loving Mexico one brilliant radio plot backfired: at a contest offering prizes for the first parrot to say "Mejoral es mejor" over...
...Goebbels has banned Germany's biggest recent song hit, Es Geht Alles Vorüber (It'll All Be Over Some Day). Citizens made up new lyrics in which they comforted themselves that what would be over some day was Hitler and his Party...
...Abilene, Kans. This week he was in command of a hatful of crack U.S. generals, at least one admiral and all the expedition's allied ground, sea and air units. Under his shrewd, blue eyes was a country bristling with such names as Tizi-Ouzou, Bougie and Ksar es-Souk, steeped in an ancient, bloody history written around such figures as Hannibal and Hamilcar...