Word: hills
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...couple spent most of their time in Britain, where they lived in lush disregard for austerity. The Maharaja lengthened his fabulous string of race horses (estimated to be worth $1,000,000), built a chromium-studded training establishment atop Warren Hill, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (despite local indignation over this use of scarce building materials...
From the late George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Co., Loewy won a $50,000 bet that he could improve the green & gold package of Lucky Strikes. He finally even persuaded Hill to change it to white (Lucky Strike green went to war) on the argument that since people put cigarettes in their mouths, they like to see them in sanitary-looking containers...
...Senator, Crump had dumped servile Tom Stewart, a politician with no great vote-getting appeal, in favor of a man with still less: an obscure, hill-country judge named John A. Mitchell. Stung into independence, Stewart ran anyway. But neither candidate was a match for hardworking, respected Congressman Estes Kefauver...
Congress went through the motions of considering the President's special-session message-but the motions were perfunctory. Seven hours after Harry Truman had left Capitol Hill, congressional Republicans flatly announced-with the approval of Candidate Tom Dewey-that "our efforts will be devoted to completing the session as soon as possible...
...planned to stay on his hill the rest of the month, in comparative seclusion, coming down some time after Labor Day to hurl himself back into the active campaign. Until then, no doubt, he would do some musing on his future. Henry Wallace, who considers himself a reflective man, had plenty to think about...