Word: racks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fallen Angel. In Seattle, absent-minded John P. Angel drove his car into a service station, stepped out, discovered too late that he was eight feet aloft on a grease rack...
...from the Book of Common Prayer of England's Edward VI, who died in 1553: "We heartily pray Thee to send Thy Holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds and pastures of the earth, that they, remembering themselves to be Thy tenants, may not rack or stretch out the rents of their houses or lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines or money after the manner of covetous worldlings, but so to let them out that the inhabitants thereof may be able to pay their rents and to live and nourish their families and remember...
...Public hanging from the "coat rack" gallows, allowing 30 executions at the same time. These scenes were photographed, published as postcards, and issued to German soldiers. The caption read: "This is how trees blossom in Serbia...
Rain postponed the baseball game twice before Tale could rack up a 7 to 8 opening victory at New Haven. The Varsity struck back in the second contest two days later, but went down to defeat in the playoffs at the role Grounds the following week...
...like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...