Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the call came through to her Louisville home last week, Emma Clarissa Clement was off at a district church conference in Springfield, Ky. Her daughter took the message. Mrs. Clement had just been elected American Mother of 1946 by the Golden Rule Foundation. Said the citation: "A mother of children who are devotedly serving their country and their people, a partner in her husband's ministry in his lifetime, a social and community worker in her own right...
...slow-speaking, nail-hard adventurer was walking around the town of Yellowknife last week in a bright golden haze. Ulric Joseph ("Spud") Arsenault, a trapper and prospector in the Northwest Territories, had staked out 20 likely-looking claims about 50 miles north of Yellowknife last year. Last week Beaulieu Yellowknife Mines, Ltd. agreed to pay him $100,000 cash for his properties, give him 250,000 shares of stock (worth 50? a share to start) in the new company organized to develop them...
...immersed in a maelstrom of all night parties and lost weekends. He saw the crowds and colors of November Saturday afternoons and smelled the mixed aroma of burning leaves, Chanel, and rye hovering over Soldiers Field. Pretty girls there would be by the score, by the six dozen--the "golden girls." The bright lights and gay scenes revolved in perfect time to the Six Little Tailors, and for once, Vag smiled at the jingle...
...Corbusier thought his job as technical adviser to the Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning would be a golden opportunity to replace France's 150,000 war-damaged communities with fine new cities and villages with attractive parks. Last week he admitted that spotty bombing and human nature had him stumped...
...worthiness was not new. Since the National Academy had received no scientific paper of his since 1941, its action was prompted as much by political as by scientific considerations. Few if any U.S. academicians were Communist partisans. But nearly all scientists look back with longing to their golden age before Hitler and World War II, when science was free and truly international. The honor the Academy bestowed on Kapitza was a protest against the bristling barriers of secrecy and suspicion that now separate the scientists of the world...