Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last December, as these three entered the gates of the air station, the machine tool was still abuilding. On the right were dozens of pearl-grey barracks with colonial facades, long mess halls and groundschool buildings; on the left, mammoth hangars skirting the vast bare landing field. Now, just six months later, the arid newness is gone. Grass grows beside the streets, palm and pine spot the once dusty table land. The 200 cadets who stream in each month from the odds & ends of civilian life see a brisk hustle of officers and trainees in their khaki service uniforms...
...nights, under mammoth silver palm trees rising toward a starry blue-silk sky, a changing trio of bands will blare out over a vast dance floor holding 5,000, spectators' stands seating 4,000, cafe sections seating 1,500. Admission is 66? on weekdays, 88? on weekends and holidays, with the partners of Service men admitted free...
...wrote a play in French, Les Pariahs, which ran 100 nights at the Theatre Moliere in Paris. Then he turned to diplomacy and began his smooth ascent in the Foreign Office.* In 1920 he became private secretary to mammoth, crusty Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon. In 1928 he became Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. In 1930 he became Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and that was when his power began. Though Foreign Secretaries came & went, Sir Robert's influence remained so strong that it was said he was one of the three...
Unlike Europe's other dictators, big-nosed, mammoth-mustached Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin looks man enough for the part. Unlike the others, he has never been Premier. He has bossed the Soviet Union for 19 years as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party...
This afternoon Don Donahue and Co. will polish up their winning manners in a dress rehearsal with the Boston Athletie Association prior to playing host to Dartmouth's mammoth track threat next Saturday. Today the Freshmen will also get off to a 2:15 gun at Exeter...