Word: ideally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jeremiah Chaplin rested on his oars and gazed with tired satisfaction over the Kennebec River valley. He had rowed 20 miles upriver. There, he decided that June day in 1818, was an ideal site for his Maine Literary and Theological Institution...
...hundred years later, the site no longer seemed ideal. A smelly paper mill and a railroad yard hemmed in the school (now renamed Colby College...
...called them cattle rustlers, and sometimes they were. A wholesale attempt to scare them away by vigilante methods had developed into what the history books call the Johnson County War. Tom Horn had done his bit in this war; he was cocky, range-wise, quick on the draw, an ideal trigger man. But off-duty he drank too much, and talked too much. One day in Cheyenne he boasted to a U.S. marshal that he had clipped young Willie Nickell, a homesteader's son, at 300 yards. "It was the best shot and the dirtiest trick I ever done...
...step, often bitter, he remained the beau ideal of the Senate. He had no fear of political consequences; in later years he did not even campaign for office. There was dignity and gallantry about the homely little man. Sometimes, carried away by lost causes, he attacked his adversaries physically. Once he plunged at Huey Long -because the Kingfish had taken the liberty of calling him by his first name...
...union suit department, Clinton Anderson the company cafeteria, Ed Pauley will take charge of the furnace, "an oil burner." Edward Stettinius will be a model in the men's ready-to-wear suit department, will be used in the store window on dull days. "It would be an ideal job for Ed," the President claimed. "He wouldn't have to open his mouth." Storytelling George Allen's job would be to take care of the men's room. "All he will have to do is now and then tell a story to the customers and keep...