Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorker, he was in the Navy in World War I for six seasick months, transferred to the Army, fought in France, met the French girl he afterwards married, got back to Harvard (and Porcellian and Hasty Pudding) to graduate just before the family fortunes collapsed. He had a brief spell of newspaper work, and then Joseph Baldwin was in politics up to the neck that his enemies said was stiffer than it need...
While Boston and vicinity shivered from the tail end of the storm that has been raging out west, John H. Connover, Chief Observer and Research Assistant of the Harvard Blue Hill Observatory in Milton prophesied in an interview last night that the cold spell will end soon...
...California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...
...last week the Lullablitz had lasted nearly a month. More jittery in their breathing spell than they had been under their worst postering, the British tried to guess what was cooking...
...Business deserves another Breathing Spell...