Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eshowe, the pleasant little Zululand capital some 800 miles to the northeast, native chieftains were already laying plans to have their men come in from the surrounding kraals for a vast war-dance on the airfield to welcome royalty...
...prefaced his stay at Oxford by a year of Knocking around France, and reinforcing thereby his interest in modern European history. The subsequent life at Oxford was a wonderful experience. "I was thrown on my own to study as I wished. And the social side of it was pleasant-lots of good, easy going conversation." Professor Brinton's rate of absorption was patently prodigious-his Ph.D. thesis, "Political Ideas in the English Romantic Period," got a gratifying reception, and is still a much-used work in the field...
...would retire in June. He had stepped down as Dean of the Harvard Law School in 1936 to become the first of the University's "roving professors." Now, after eleven years of teaching whatever he liked, from sociology to Lucretius, he was about to give up that pleasant...
...mind a distant skunk smell on a frosty morning. But the perfumers finally gave up on skunks: their scent is basically a defensive weapon rather than a sex lure. Muskrat glands, a cheap by-product of the fur trade, did work. The muskrat substance is not a very pleasant smell, but a lucky chemist discovered that he could split its molecules in two, turning it into a blockbusting fragrance not unlike musk. (The nonutilitarian musk ox simply smells...
...pleasant concoction of witty comedy and realistic social satire, "Storm in a Teacup" is serious without being pedantic, funny without being cute. Its ingredients--poor journalist, rich girl, villainous father-seem trite only when taken from their content. Fast dialogue and expert acting fuse these elements into a picture that is still timely ten years after it was produced in England...