Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides, it was pretty pleasant when I was there, but around December 10 I understand it gets a little cold," Cadbury smiled...
...gentleman named Francis Woodman has a pleasant routine three days of every week. He comes from his home in Jamaica Plain, and walks slowly from the Yard to Soldiers Field, admiring the changes that time has imprinted on the undergraduate and the view. For Mr. Woodman was a Senior here when Saturday football games were played on Jarvis Field and the best rooms were in Grays and Matthews. Many years have passed since 1888, and now he has come back after retirement to watch football practices, attend Sunday chapel, and at least partially relive the unworried college days...
Last week, in one of Britain's darker hours, a British fund to relieve distress caused by last winter's floods received a letter. It expressed "solicitude for the unprecedented harshness of the weather in a countryside which we will always remember as your great and pleasant land." Enclosed was a check for ?1,000, signed by Haile Selassie, now once more secure on his throne in Addis Ababa (where the sun shines almost every day of the year...
...Poet Robert Lowell, 30, wartime conscientious objector, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner, went a Government plum - a year's pleasant work (at $5,700) as adviser on poetry for the Library of Congress (where his predecessor was 1944 Pulitzer Poet Karl Shapiro...
Even so, there was no denying one pleasant prospect: that U.S. businessmen, after worrying themselves sick over what would happen in 1947. stood to make as much, if not more, than they ever had before...