Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them. Last week his answer was made public. It was a lot more encouraging than that which Statistician George Gallup gave to R.K.O. when it asked him to survey the cinema business (TIME, July 21). Using as his yardstick a period of one month, Roper discovered a raft of pleasant statistics about CBS and its programs. Among them...
...bloody hell he was doin'. 'Am pursuin' small detachment of Italian destroyers,' he signals back. But somehow the Warspite and some more of our battleships got in between us and them, and that's probably why I'm here havin' this pleasant drop of beer...
Sample report, dated Nov. 21, 1814: "At the ball given by the Count Francis Pallfy, Alexander (I of Russia), who deeply admires the beauty of Countess Szechenyi-Guilford, said to her: 'Your husband is absent. It would be very pleasant to take his place temporarily.' The Countess replied: 'Does Your Majesty take me for a province...
Many returning Harvard undergraduates were shocked by the female occupancy of such hallowed halls as Lionol, Straus, and Matthews, where they had spend a pleasant Freshman bachelor existence but this understandable annoyance melted noticeably after the first few "get acquainted" teas...
...week his aides revealed that he had reversed his policy: in the future the winner in all cases of identical bidding will be the firm nearest to the site of project. Reasons were two: 1) defense transportation shortage; 2) Mr. Ickes now believes that this procedure will be so pleasant for the winner that other firms will be less likely to agree to identical bids...