Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet Type. But Mild & Bitter had no record of hair-raising escapes. Her saga was one of good luck and almost monotonous efficiency. She had lugged 166 different airmen to battle; 26 were decorated, but not one got a Purple Heart. During her robust career she acquired some 50 flak holes, but never any damage that Bill Stuart and his ground crew could not repair overnight...
...down the suspicion that Composer Antheil had paid careful attention to the music and success of Dmitri Shostakovich. In any event, the work proved what some of his friends have long suspected: that the talent Antheil has hid under a bushel of estheticism is one of the most robust and various in modern music...
...nine years scholarly, long-faced Dr. Louis D. H. Weld has been precisely taking its measurements, U.S. advertising never had been as robust as in 1943. Last week Dr. (of philosophy) Weld's indexes in Printers' Ink told publishers in fine what they had known in general. Spacewise, all advertising was up 14.6% over 1942. The gains: newspapers 12.2%, magazines 28.5%, farm papers 39.9%. The only loser: outdoor advertising...
...second and last company smoker, tentatively slated for Thursday, December 23, should produce another evening of robust entertainment. . .among the repeaters from the first smoker will be G.L.Mason--of the tune-writin' Masons--Hershberg and company, and, of course, the inimitable Lagerquist. . .Lagie is expected to unspin, uhreel, unwind, bring forth with another of those tall, highly colorful, highly humorous yarns, tales, anecdotes, whoppers, whew...
...Russia WPB Boss Donald Nelson and the Russians fell madly in love. It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair...