Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown from 3,000,000 members to 39 million, organized into 120,000 branches. (Every soldier and government employee must join.) The association promotes Russia in a big way, with a big budget: last year it sponsored 74 periodicals, 580 books and pamphlets, 200 film projection teams, 2,500 lantern-slide groups, and 20,000 evening classes in the Russian language...
CHICAGO, led by Pullman Co. President Carroll R. Harding, aimed for $9,870,000. The campaign was run with railroad lingo: "section bosses" for soliciting from large firms, trades & industries, general business; "Red Feather Specials" won "Golden Lantern" awards for best time toward "Quotaville...
...survey points out that the most characteristic of the Irish race are Keltics. These are the people with narrow heads, long narrow faces--with a narrow nose, a lantern jaw and blue eyes. The Keltics compose 25 per cent of the population...
...delicate art of Japanese lantern-making, in which the ladies opposite are engaged, owes its worldwide popularity to Emperor Hirohito's grandfather. In 1878, the artisan city of Gifu presented Emperor Meiji with a particularly beautiful lantern; he was so deeply moved that he resolved to encourage the trade, and by the turn of the century lanterns had become one of Japan's most famed exports...
...Lantern in the Belfry. In Washington, Langer soon got a reputation for being long on wind and trivial proposals, short on judgment and accomplishment; he was on almost all lists of the ten worst Senators. Among the bills he introduced was one to issue a special series of stamps to encourage mailing of good-will letters. This year, when Winston Churchill was coming to the U.S., Langer asked the vicar of Old North Church in Boston to place a lantern in the belfry to give the U.S. a Paul Revere warning. But worst of all, by Midwest Republican standards, Langer...