Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kind of wishful magic familiar to more men than would ever admit it, John Husted then became "Lieut. Blish C. Hills, U. S. S. Anderson." On Riverside Drive by the Hudson, he strolled with others in blue, bandied glances with the passing girls, was casually curt with mere sailors...
...Mantis James Van Sweringen called upon him in 1935. "0. P." and "M. J." were $50,000,000 in the hole and J. P. Morgan & Co. was about to auction their $3,000,000,000 railroad empire. At the auction George A. Ball bid in the empire for a mere $3,121,000. He was not a railroad man; he bought it for the Vans to run. But within a year the amazing brothers both died. He transferred control to a new philanthropic trust, the George & Frances Ball Foundation, then went hunting for buyers. He found them two years...
...Indians took the Crimson's measure at Hanover last Saturday, defeating the visitors to the tune of 5 to 3, behind Hal Wonson. As a result of losing the second game of Monday's, double-header with Princeton, the Green now holds a mere half-game lead in the Circuit...
...birth into an Army family). His great-great-grand-uncle was interested in coal and coke mines near Uniontown, Pa., where George Marshall was born on the last day of 1880; his great-great-grand uncle was John Marshall, greatest U. S. Chief Justice. Soldier Marshall was a mere first lieutenant in 1916. During the World War he got a temporary colonelcy, a chance to demonstrate his brilliance at staff direction, finally an assignment as Pershing's aide...
...Ulysses is a Dublin day, Finnegans Wake is a Dublin night. The long confused passages in which people change shape, the speeches that sound matter-of-fact but turn out to be gibberish, the flights, pursuits, embarrassing situations which are oddly taken for granted-all these are not mere plays on words or literary jokes; they are dreams...