Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just by way of introducing the pleasant custom of society notes to these pages, Mr. Harvey Harman, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, weekended in historic Cambridge these day recently past. He visited friends and Harvard Athletic Directors...
...very pleasant," said French Finance Minister René Mayer one day last week, "to cooperate with a man who has as sane ideas as Sir Stafford Cripps." Nonetheless, he was not taking all Sir Stafford's ideas. This week, despite Crippsian objections, the French devalued the franc in a way that, Cripps thought, threatened the pound...
...economic obstacles. In Washington, the International Monetary Fund (which must approve major currency devaluations) officially disapproved of the French action after an eight-day debate. "Sometimes," said wizened Camille Gutt of Belgium, Fund Managing Director, "we stayed up all night. Sometimes we didn't eat. It was not pleasant...
...mostly glass, and finlike shades will protect them from the Mediterranean sun, a stunt Le Corbusier had tried in Rio de Janeiro. "Just as the human eye can stand the sun because it has eyelashes," says Le Corbusier, "rationally oriented sunbreaks will admit only those rays that bring pleasant warmth and cheer in every season...
...high size is Lyons' style. Lyons provides everything from buns to banquets (for thousands), with an atmosphere of elegance, and at low prices. The term "nippy", with which Lyons tagged its waitresses after a sprucing-up campaign in 1925, has become a British household word for an efficient, pleasant servant...