Word: peakedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inhabitants of the hall peaked shyly from doorways as the microphone was brought into the building, and then, as they recognized fellow-female "Kilte" McGrath, Radcliffe '42, opened up and answered questions designed to introduce the species in its own habitat to the other half.
Swakopmund. "Its buildings might have been lifted bodily from any small north German seaside town: its hotels-the Hansa, Fürst Bismarck, Thüringer Hof, Europäischer Hof-its bungalows and cinema and charming baroque church. Its solid burghers who have been here over a generation are...
China's Roads. Because the Japanese have closed China's coast line, China must breathe through roads and railways leading to unconquered seaports. The Japanese, closing on Rangoon, were closing the entry to China's arterial Burma Road. But China had an alternative. In the wild, peaked...
White and shaken, the young lieutenant picked himself up and examined his peaked campaign hat on the ground. The shot had torn it clean off his head. Even the tough top sergeant was moved. Said he: "With the lieutenant's kind permission, may I remark that the rest of...
He became the hero of novels, the theme of poems. Some people thought he looked a little like Peter the Great, victor at Poltava (which Semion Budenny lost fortnight ago). One of the largest coal trusts in Russia was named for him. A city in the Caucasus, a town in...