Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes such remarks as "I've never handled controls like these before," or "Hey, let me learn to fly this ship!", his painful metaphors can be passed off as the result of embarrassment. But when Myrna Loy describes herself as a lowwing single-motored monoplane with a fair wingspread and "streamlined, so they tell me!", the whole idea of conversation along those lines becomes pretty...
...Northern China, but also as a prime point on the strategic caravan route to outer Mongolia and Russia. The brief & bloody capture of this little corner of disputed territory last week was an obvious Japanese threat to Mongol chieftains to mind their manners. Nanking's complaisance was a fair admission that China's Nationalist Government was resigned to the eventual loss of Chahar, probably in return for a promise that for a little while yet, Peiping and Tientsin will not be captured...
...this is a fair example of the kind of man in the Army at the present time, the Secretary of War should investigate...
...examiner. And after Mr. Johnston was astride "Old Bullion," he persuaded the St. Louis banker to move to Manhattan. There in 15 years the potent Southern team of Johnston & Houston lifted Chemical from 136th to 14th place in the roster of U. S. banking resources. Says President Houston, a fair golfer: "You can't be a good golfer and a good banker at the same time...
...Allied forces at Brussels, but when a courier gallops up with word that Napoleon has marched his myriad zealots to the city gates, England's finest leave a half empty punch bowl to march forth amid the plaudits of the multitude and the tender lamentations of the fair. Dainty handkerchiefs flutter from the balconies as the troops march past, for it has been "the last waltz, Madeline, and m' regiment leaves at dawn." Historically speaking, just a trifle before dawn...