Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dimitrov has been the leader of the Cominform campaign against Stalin's Bad Boy Tito. Bulgaria's boss might have fallen into disfavor because the campaign had not yet got very far. Only last year...
...other hand, Georgi Dimitrov might really be ill. He has had heart trouble and skin ailments for years. And he went on leave just as the "season" opened in the Communist elite health resorts along Russia's Black Sea coast...
Good Old George. But on such a day, few got seriously worked up about that matter. Irish tempers, in fact, had simmered down a good deal since the old days. It might even happen, now that they had got rid of the Black & Tans for good, that the Irish might get to be friends with the British. To his former subjects, the King sent a touching message. "I pray that every blessing may be with you today and in the future," said His Majesty. "God Save the King" sang Anne Maggie Crowley, a Dublin newsvendor, as she elbowed...
...difficulties, reporters and editors were less inclined to give a last-minute story the old college try. Last week, Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune and Marshall Field's tabloid Sun-Times both settled for bulletins on a shake-up at Montgomery Ward's (see BUSINESS) that might have filled a column in the same edition in the old days. Said Sun-Times City Editor Karin Walsh: "If we don't hit it in one edition, we'll get it in the next." Even bulletins were made possible only by the Graphotype,*a machine perfected...
Indoor Drainage. The most startling feature of Breuer's house was the "butterfly roof" which made space for a second-story bedroom under one wing and (by substituting a single indoor drainpipe) did away with outside gutters and drains. Despite such practical advantages, traditionalists might object that the tilting roof gave the inside of the house a slightly seasick air. Like the exterior walls, the ceilings were largely finished with unpainted cypress siding, which had a warm, luxurious look. The floors were of bluestone flagging and designed for radiant heating coils. Breuer, whose knack of combining materials to bring...