Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They crowded to the rails, rubbernecking eagerly as the towers of the City Hall came into view, and then the long, squat shipbuilding yards and factories of Tallinn. Like Cook's Tour lecturers, Communist political commissars on the Soviet warships pointed out the sights, reminded Red Navy tars that...
Outlining the procedure followed in the department, Professor Holcombe pointed out that discussions of who should be advanced had started as far back as February. "Without that it would have been unreasonable to expect the department to reach a conclusion in the two week period between the acceptance of the...
Bishop Manning, head of the Episcopal Church in New York City, declared in a sermon, "Our sympathies, our moral support, and whatever ever aid we can rightly give at this time must be with those who at untold cost are upholding the principles and ideals of human life in which...
The unhappy ending to a 20-year-old story was written when a 13-man military court found World War I's slickest draft-dodger, pudgy Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, guilty of wartime desertion, sent him back to his Army cell on Governor's Island in New York Bay...
Janitors defended themselves stoutly against the rumblings of undergraduate discontent, declaring that the "college is not cheating on the heat," and pointed out that the reason students are cold in their rooms is because they don't turn on the radiators.