Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fleet Street took a longer view. Hats and elections could come & go, but was this pretty, vivacious, 32-year-old woman about to rewrite a chapter of British news paper history? Her fondest hope had be come common knowledge: to spur her 47-year-old husband's Daily Mail back into the all but lost struggle with Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, and win the top in the mass circulation field...
...three years after Pearl Harbor, the U.P. spent $278,000,000. It bought 2,270 new cars, 136 locomotives. It laid 1,680 miles of heavier rail to carry the oversize freight trains that Jeffers knew were on the way. Though one of the U.P.'s fondest boasts is that its roadbed is better laid and better kept than any other road's in the U.S., it rebuilt hundreds of miles of roadbed. For the steep grades over the Great Divide it developed the world's biggest locomotive...
...President Butler's single-mindedness but in spite of his versatility. A voracious appetite for responsibility was his shining virtue and his chief vice. While it nurtured Columbia, it distracted Butler into politics, lured him into a maze of inconsistencies that may have kept him from achieving his fondest ambition: the Presidency...
...fondest childhood memories was of meeting Rudyard Kipling, who was a friend of her father and who had vacationed near her home in Brattlebore, Vermont. After coming to Harvard, she lived a quiet life in Boston, devoting her major interest to the University...
...Prospect. As practically as it can in a white man's country, the Government of Jan Smuts supports a better deal for the blacks. Among other reasons for this attitude, Smuts knows that the Union's rigid color bar is also a bar to one of his fondest dreams-a Greater South Africa, built around the Union and embracing British territories below the Congo. The blacks in Britain's crown colonies and protectorates do not have equality. But under the British Colonial Office they get a better break than they do in the Union. This fact...