Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News of a sensationally successful new fountain pen called Stratopen, which uses a ball bearing instead of a pen point, came from Argentina last week. One of its advantages: it does not leak at high altitudes. In the past three months Argentines have bought up the entire output of 20,000, and last week the U.S. Army was reported dickering for the pen's manufacture...
...that ghostly cough ; he saw again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church of Santa Trinita de' Monti, overlooking a fountain built in the shape of a ship, and flower stalls packed with daffodils and mimosa. Sometimes Keats walked. Sometimes he puzzled over books in Italian. Sometimes he wrote to Fanny Brawne (the flirtatious girl he loved) or about her. Sometimes he talked about his unfinished work, said he would have...
...stay up all night for an exam because I haven't studied. All term I do my assignments on time, and prepare for at least two days before each exam. I always get a good night's sleep and have a clear head in the morning. I take two fountain pens, and three well-sharpened pencils, just in case...
...high-grade faculties and its formidable founder. In 17 years two provosts ( Avonian for headmaster), to one of whom she had been led by consulting a classified telephone directory, quit after rows. Once the bulk of the faculty followed progressive Provost Francis Mitchell Froelicher to Colorado's Fountain Valley School. Last week Provost W. Brooke Stabler, an Episcopal cleric who formerly preached and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to take the headmastership of Michigan's Cranbook School. He and Mrs. Riddle were incommunicado. Faculty members were not talking about Avon's closing...
...Nazi bomber swooped in over the Anzio beach, dropped its big radio-controlled rocket bomb, started to guide it toward the Allied supply ships below. The ships tossed up a fountain of flak, trying to explode the projectile. Suddenly the bomb slowed in midair, twisted into a crazy loop, started straight back toward its parent plane...