Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head Up, Chin Up. Last week, when Shirley May finally took the plunge, she had missed the good weather. She also missed most of the newsmen. On their way over from England, they were far out in mid-Channel at take-off time aboard a picturesque but snail-slow two...
In downtown Chicago, the posters had been up for days-"State Street is ready for school." The shops had been ready with new wardrobes, the stationery stores with book bags and fountain pens. Last week, schoolchildren in Chicago and elsewhere were reluctantly ready, too. Their jeep-hats bobbed in school...
Last week Scottie was scratching away at his drawings full-time in a cheap rented room in the Kilburn district of London. Despite his vogue with London's intelligentsia, his tastes were still simple, his prices low (?5 to ?15 a picture). Some days he worked over his board...
Minnesota, which claimed the largest state-fair art show in the country, gave its first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won...
By the time smoke began to boil out of the rocket's top, nearly everyone had retreated to the blockhouse. "It is now X minus 20 minutes," warned the operations officer, Lieut. Commander W. Patrick Murphy, over the loudspeaker. "Silence in the blockhouse. No smoking."