Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wait!" But the Japanese, given six months' grace in the Indies, may be very strongly entrenched. India, Australia, or both may fall. The Japanese may move against Russia's Vladivostok and its bases in Kamchatka, between Alaska and Japan. They may even strike at the U.S. Aleutians, and then toward Alaska. Germany may strike at the great oil and supply centers of the Persian Gulf and the Caucasus, or at western Africa. The enemy was certain to attempt some of these stratagems very soon; in proper conjunction, they might win the war while the Allies prepared...
...financier (banks, railroads, traction companies). A graduate of Yale, where he was a slow but steady student, he started tinkering early in the shops of the Vanderbilt-controlled New York Central, made a point of visiting them periodically almost to the end of his life. When he married Grace Wilson, a wealthy cotton merchant's daughter, over his father's objection, he was cut off with a small inheritance. Brother Alfred Gwynne gave him $6,000,000 to equalize his share...
Paramount's Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...
...American-Grace Airways inaugurated its fifth weekly South American airmail schedule. In one year Panagra (jointly owned by Pan American Airways and W. R. Grace & Co.) has increased its services between Panama and the Argentine 140%, now flies 88,952 miles weekly...
Daybreak was greeted by a ship's boy ("on the same principle as having family grace said by the youngest child") with the singing of a hymn. Further similar hymns were sung at almost every half hour of the day. But piety did not prevent the sailors from becoming terrified as the voyage went on, from plotting mutiny and the murder of Columbus. Only the landfall at San Salvador in the Bahamas prevented some kind of outbreak. Nor did piety stop the "white gods" from swindling, kidnapping, murdering and raping Indians before they had been a month...