Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Pauline M. Logan of Bejment was elected treasurer of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association at the annual meeting last Saturday...
...pictures miss few of the hairs. Using the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting on wood panels, Hurd confines himself to precise portraits of people and places, dramatized by isolated figures, long shadows and cold, gleaming colors. The paintings that tell of the barren hills and washes, the deserts and clear bright light of New Mexico are as knowing and sincere as an honest man's praise of his own family...
...presidency is chiefly honorary; policy in the Mother Church (and its 3,000 branch churches and societies) is tightly controlled by a five-member board of directors. But Miss Shipman seemed little concerned with the temporal honor of her new position. Said she: "If Mary Baker Eddy were here today she would see the signs of the growth she most desired," signs that stem from "a more steadfast consciousness of the all-power and all-presence...
...letter was addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes, 221B Baker Street, London, England; it was postmarked Cleveland, Miss. Wrote 19-year-old Coed Laquita Joyce Bell of Delta State Teachers College: "Dear Mr. Holmes: My English teacher told me something would happen if I wrote you. He refused to tell me what. This aroused my curiosity, so here I sit, feeling rather silly, writing...
...221B Baker Street something did happen that not even Miss Bell's English teacher had foreseen. The first issue of the London Mystery Magazine, a high-brow whodunit monthly, was published from that address, and 40,000 copies were on sale last week (at 50?) on newsstands all over Britain. Soon, London Mystery will invade the U.S. market, to match its wits against Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (circ. 150,000), which now dominates the mystery-magazine field...