Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful times it would be my task to tell you of the pleasant colleges years ahead of you and to forecast for you lives of intelligence, comfort, and gracious living. Today that sort of message would be an absurdity. You are not Harvard men merely by the agreeable application of an established usage. You--and all the other young men in America of your age--were forced to a sudden maturity by the tragedy of December...
...Chasemen, it was a pleasant beginning to what may be the most successful ice season in the past four years. Last winter the team won three League contests, two of them over doormat Army, and one at the expense of Princeton near the end of the campaign. Previous to these triumphs, the Crimson sextet had gone winless in the Pentagonal loop since March...
...informal meet at the Indoor Athletic Building, the Jayvee wrestling team pinned Mount Pleasant High 19 to 13 on Saturday afternoon. Jay Schaffran's charges were hard-pressed by the school boys, but the last two bouts of the day cinched matters. George Gostenhofer and Saville Sax were the clinchers of the Crimson triumph...
...most interesting figures brought out by our survey is that TIME is now read by even more women than men - by about 10,000 more women, in fact. But the thing we get the greatest kick out of is still the pleasant fact that you vote 7 to 1 that TIME is your favorite magazine among all the magazines you read...
...trek of world dignitaries to Moscow in 1942 brought Stalin out of his inscrutable shell, revealed a pleasant host and an expert at playing his cards in international affairs. At banquets for such men as Winston Churchill, W. Averill Harriman and Wendell Willkie, Host Stalin drank his vodka straight, talked the same way. He sent Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov to London and Washington to promote the second front and jack up laggard shipments of war materiel. In two letters to Henry Cassidy of the A.P., Stalin shrewdly used the world's headlines to state the Russian case for more...