Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of the great hegira to the West, was considered to be the end of Eastern civilization and the jumping off place into the great Indian country. After their arduous trip over the national pike (now U. S. Route 40) the emigrant New Englanders were ready for a breathing spell and a general overhauling of supplies and equipment. Also it usually took a few days to make arrangements to be ferried over the Ohio River at this point...
With 98% of legal production signed up, the first week's quota was set at 960,000 tons. It was slightly underproduced. A break in the cold spell sliced the second week's quota to 480,000 tons. Producers filled their quotas and shut down. Returning cold weather upped last week's quota to 720,000 tons. Again producers toed the mark...
Hear them spell, hear them yell...
...wrote for Villard: Norman Thomas, Stuart Chase, Paul Y. Anderson, Heywood Broun, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. By 1935 they had far outstripped Villard's radical leanings, and he sold The Nation. Maurice Wertheim, a Manhattan financier and philanthropist, owned it for a brief spell, then passed it on in 1937 to Freda Kirchwey...
...certainty. He has seen his hard mother break down and abjectly beg him to come away with her; and he has painfully made his choice. Meanwhile, too, he has carried on his active life in school, has been out on an excellently told double date, and has broken the spell of sacred fear under which frigid Louise Carpenter had held...