Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. Senate turned loose a bull in the Latin American china shop. He was Spruille Braden, now confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, a big, jolly, working democrat whose object was to smash the Western Hemisphere's dictatorial bric-a-brac...
...last time Tufts appeared on Harvard football schedule until the war started. But that Tufts team was a far cry from the powerful squad that Coach Low Manly is bringing down from Medford Heights to open the Crimson season on Saturday afternoon. The present group of Jumbos scored a smash 14 to 6 upset over a highly-touted Coast Guard Academy team three weeks ago, and followed it up with a respectable loss to the triple-tier Yale gridmen this past Saturday. This is, according to all informed opinion, a far better squad than the one which bowed...
...made from glass, steaks and biscuits made from yeast, three-dimensional photographs in full color, a portable cosmic ray detector, portraits painted in fluorescent paints that can be seen only in the dark. (One of his prized possessions is a Krazy Kat cartoon -"Why is somebody always trying to smash the poor I'll adam...
...Smash Hit. In Los Angeles, the Burbank Burlesque Theater advertised "atom-bomb dancers...
...trouble started in the rush of her first success when Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights made it clear that she would soon become a major star. David Selznick wanted her for the title role in Hitchcock's smash Rebecca, but she turned it down. She was under contract to Warner for half of each year; if she worked for Selznick, he would own the other half. She preferred to spend it with her husband, in Ireland. That sort of independence is neither admired nor understood in Hollywood. It didn't exactly enhance her stock, either, when she returned...