Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fragment was presented to us be an ancient oriental, an habitue of the ovals, so to speak, who claims descent from Confucius, and who has shown remarkable prowess of late at Lincoin Downs. We quote in part...
...Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
...part because much of their equipment is 40 years old," Mexican trains arrive on time so seldom that Mexicans call them las tortugas (turtles). In 1947, 162,000 passenger trains pulled in late; freight-train delays were so fantastic that the government suppressed the figures. On one 700-kilometer run, one freight "turtle" crawled in just 100 days late...
...professorship was made possible by a bequest of the late Mrs. Mary McBurney Gardiner of New York. The gift was from the estate of her husband, William Howard Gardiner, which she held for her life tenancy...
...Council do everything they're supposed. The problem is one of content more than anything else-a one-class book, put together by a one-year staff, can't be a topnotch publication. Freshmen interested in that type of work are drained off by the Red Book, and the late organization of the senior book always makes ontime publication nearly impossible. The '46 album, admittedly upset by the war, isn't out yet; the '47-'48 book, with energetic and skillful management, will be lucky to be out this June...