Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powder, and the coal is blown out for us. All we have to do is shovel it. Out there you have to use a jackhammer to pry the coal off the face, and even after that you have to dig the rocks out. That kind of mining isn't easy...
...commercial calls from the U.S. rang the phone of Woo Kyatang, executive editor of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury. "Hello, darling!" said a feminine voice from Washington, "How are you, dear?" When puzzled Woo failed to respond, the voice went on: "This is Dorothy, darling. How are you? . . . Isn't this Bill?" No, said Editor Woo, wrong number...
Filling Cunningham's spot will probably be the toughest. The rest of the boat conquers of falls on the pace that its stroke can set and maintain for them. Of course, as in any team sport, that isn't the whole story; but situations may arise, as they did in the four-mile regatta with Yale, that the stroke must carry the shell when his mates are having trouble. In that particular back-breaker, too little pre-race warmup caused physical complications about half-way through among the men behind Cunningham, who practically bore the weight of the speeding shell...
Another difference was the way Olga was dressed. Because of the Kremlin's 70-60-20 ratio, Olga wore cotton stockings, her hair was straight, her complexion sallow, her dress ill-fitting. One American in Russia summed up the women's dress situation this way: "There isn't a girdle in the entire Soviet Union...
...taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall, it dawns on her that she had better get rid of both husband and lover...