Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane. By the law of averages you would be dead before your 4,000th flight- five times as dangerous as scheduled airline flying. Contrary to popular opinion it is a trifle less dangerous to take sight-seeing flights or air taxis than to fly by transport plane, largely because "joy hops" are very short. Scheduled flights average between two and three hours, nonscheduled one-half to one hour...
WILLIAM M. JOY...
Death still hovered over the fragile body (which had lost a pound a day for six days) when Mr. Gandhi ended his hunger strike by saying a prayer, quavering a hymn of joy, sipping an ounce or two of orange juice and exclaiming weakly "Satyagraha [Soul Force] has triumphed...
...news of Johnny Goodman's triumph over Ouimet, Omaha went wild with joy, planned a home-coming celebration, whether he won the final or not, for a home boy who had grown up "across the tracks" and made good. Like Ross Somerville he is now an insurance salesman. Somerville inherited an insurance business (plus a fortune) from his father. He had time and opportunity to become an all-round athlete in college (University of Toronto). His golf form was perfected by professionals in Scotland. Johnny Goodman learned as a caddy. Bashful, reticent, Somerville played throughout the tournament with...
...visiting lecturers for this year include Murray Season good '00, former mayor of Cincinnati; Arthur Oncken Love joy, professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University; Robert Cedric Binkley, acting professor of History at Western Reserve University; Jose Frederico Normane, of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in South America; Serge Elisseeff, formerly professor in the Institute for the History of Foreign Affairs in Petrograd; and Henri Guy, rector of the University of Grenoble...