Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first 2,000-odd-page volume of a new translation of the Bible called The Bible in the Hands of Its Creator. Its purpose: to explain for the first time the world's current ills, dispose of the Bible's apparent inconsistencies, in so doing, spell the doom of Hitler...
...Parunak rested from this exploit, an Army patrol plane, with two men aboard, flopped down in a glacier canyon. One man was badly injured; there was no time for a two weeks' overland rescue. Four miles away was a lake. Its milky waters concealed rocks that could spell doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name: "Greenland Cooperative...
There is a case for the commercial on the overseas broadcast. The big-network show commercial is as familiar to the U.S. soldier as a birdcall to a country-boy, a subway rattle to a New Yorker. It does not spell mother, but it may spell home. Nevertheless, unless the yum-yum is taken out of some short-wave commercials, it looked as if the Plug Shrinkers club could count on a big AEF membership...
...them, seven "dynamic forces" spell war or peace. They hold that evil men merely light the fuses for civilization's great explosions; the explosive makings are already there. These seven forces, say Messrs. Hoover & Gibson, will be at the coming peace table: "Ideological, economic, nationalistic, imperialistic, and militaristic pressures, and the witches of fear, hate and revenge will participate in every discussion. But on the other hand, the prayers of a stricken world for a lasting peace will echo through those halls. The seven dynamic forces have survived every crisis. They will be with us again. We know...
...When Harvard gave an honorary degree in 1833 to Andrew Jackson, Alumnus John Quincy Adams, assailing Jackson as "a barbarian who could hardly spell his own name," raised such a row that Harvard kudized no other President for 39 years (Grant was the next...