Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bells are a true Russian Zvon, or carillon, and once were the pride and joy of the Dansilovsky, or Danailov Monastery, in Moscow, and they were given to the University by Charles R. Crane, former United States Minister to China...
...that goes to make up the life of today, not only of all our worldly possessions but also of the trials, the troubles and the decisions. There had been something rather enjoyable about it, an exhilarating feeling of irresponsibility which I, for one, appreciated; I shall always remember the joy of having no luggage to worry about, and no boxes to pack. As I went ashore I felt just the faintest feeling of hesitation at the idea of plunging back into the world. But it was only momentary, for once the world was round me again there was room...
...whole was conducted with such Joy & festivity, as demonstrated an Independent Elevation of Spirit, on this Important & enteresting Occation...
...this while Robert Ley tossed out pronouncements which tended to set him up as a second-string oracle. When the Party wanted discipline, he ranted against nicotine, alcohol and debauchery (despite his own proclivity for liquor, generously indulged on "Strength Through Joy" outings). When Germany needed manpower, he lectured the Many Children League on that "natural, healthy" phenomenon, illegitimacy (see col. 2). When Lebensraum (living space) and the Communist menace were in the air, he proclaimed: "In Germany 147 men have to live on one square kilometre-in Russia only nine. This may be borne for a time by superhuman...
...Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered two new, tiny satellites of Jupiter-only 19 and 15 miles in diameter-bringing the known total of Jupiter's attendants to eleven (of which four have been known since Galileo turned one of the first telescopes on the big planet). Professor Alfred Harrison Joy plotted the rotation of the Milky Way-the great star galaxy, six hundred thousand trillion miles across, to which the sun and all other visible stars belong. The regions near the centre of the galaxy are rotating fastest, the outermost regions slowest. By measuring the speeds of Cepheid variable stars...