Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence's Arab revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near East...
...hippo is envisaged as being translated into heaven...
...University cannot allow such a heaven sent opportunity to slip. What with the on-coming Tercentenary Celebration and the concurrent interest in the college, certainly it is up to Harvard to do right by her senior class. In return for support and interest for four years, the graduating classes from now on should be advertised quickly and effectively by a yearly senior poll, as at Princeton. On a percentage basis, and given a few years, the college might even surpass the sales records hung up by the Ford...
...plates, which excited little interest. Then up came a famed old bookcase used by Calvin Coolidge at Amherst. "Who'll give me $50?" boomed Bean. "Five dollars," said a voice. It went for $33. Wiping his brow, Auctioneer Bean grumbled: "It's not an antique now, but heaven knows it will be someday...
Next morning, after a breakfast of sausages, hot rolls, honey and coffee, came a spasm of postcard-writing. One Hans Hinrichs proudly got off 200 in jig-time by means of a rubber stamp saying: "Greetings from mid-ocean and mid-heaven." Passenger Murray Simon related his adventures in 1910 as navigator on the airship America, which set out from Atlantic City, came down 1,000 miles at sea on the first attempt to cross by dirigible...