Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Momentous Convention." Early last summer, while Hillman was bedded with grippe in Manhattan, his telephone rang. He took a thermometer out of his mouth to answer. "Sidney," said the voice of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "I've got a big job I'd like you to do." It was a job on the Defense Commission. Hillman's tempera ture rose from 101 to 103°. When he recovered he went to work in Washington...
...post-season "gravy bowls," those who are not. Last week, while Stanford, Texas A. & M., Tennessee, Boston College and other anxious candidates prepared for their last and most important games of the season, the Ivy Leaguers and the Big Ten-frowning on more than eight games a season-rang down the curtain on the 71st year of U. S. football...
Meanwhile the Disney lot rang with the sound of classical music. Patient engineers who had never been to a concert in their lives listened to 35 to 710 performances of each composition, ended up whistling Bach. Beethoven and even Stravinsky at breakfast. Idea men, working on the dulcet strains of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, winced at the bedlam of Stravinsky's Rite which other technicians were playing next door. (The Rite finally had to be quarantined in a special corner of the lot, where its boom-lay-booms could be studied without disturbing the whole studio...
...been on the sucker lists of security salesmen who, finding the going too tough in the U. S. under SEC administration, had fled to Canada to sell their wallpaper mining stocks by long-distance telephone. Fortnight ago, W. Kennedy's turn came. The telephone in his Chicago office rang. He picked up the receiver. The conversation...
...peewee French officer, Rouget, in one chanceful, inspired evening composed The Marseillaise, which rang through the torchlit streets of Revolutionary France. But soon he became a counterRevolutionary, escaped with his life to live 40 dismal years...