Word: murk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clipper and plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics in the modern world drew the biggest crowd. In the murk of Gothic Mandel Hall, 2,000 heard totalitarianism doomed by Professors Maritain, Tawney and Charles H. Mcllwain (Harvard) and President Hutchins. Although the learned gen tlemen, like lesser citizens, disagreed on the issue of war and peace they all agreed on the evils of totalitarianism...
Deac Aylesworth's immediate job is to let as much light as possible into the murk beclouding the average U.S. citizen's notion of life Down There; also to see that southbound programs do not conflict, hurt anybody's feelings or suffer from the dreary blight of what is known as "education"-in general, to make them make sense...
Such signals do not distinguish defending from attacking planes. So AA. men must be sure the dark sky is clear of their own planes before opening up. Presumably the device is also adaptable for use by defending planes, which can feel out the murk with radio beams coordinated with their machine guns...
Berwick v. Hipper. Somewhere in the North Atlantic on Christmas morning, the fast 10,000-ton British cruiser Berwick gave chase to a Nazi raider which attacked the Berwick's convoy with torpedo and shellfire. In stormy murk the enemy, which the British guessed by its speed to be a cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class, got away, but not without an 8-inch hit amidships from the Berwick. The latter also sustained damage (five casualties) but remained at sea. During the chase, the Berwick came upon the raider's supply ship, the freighter Baden, which set herself...
Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post: "Perfection seemed to be written on the backs of the Harvard players, piercing the late afternoon murk like neon sign. The more homespun Elis never had a chance against the smooth, versatile Harlowmen...