Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain," complained the Bishop of Rochester, "has sunk into a complaining lethargy. . . . The record of strikes, ca'canny* and absenteeism since God gave us the victory has blotted the most splendid page of all English history...
...have just returned from Spain after two and a half years there, and I want to congratulate TIME for its splendid job of reporting and fair analysis of present-day Spain [TIME, March...
...anniversary. The faithful were as reverent now as on that miraculous Sunday in 638 when the fishermen of Boulogne found the Virgin, then a prow on an unmanned ship that sailed to anchor despite the harbor's shoals. They were as ardent now as when mighty Charlemagne, or splendid Francis I, or Sun King Louis XIV made pilgrimage to her shrine...
Nikolai Lenin, reported one of his embalmers happily, was in splendid shape...
Soon Psousennes joined his General, and then the main tomb, too, was sealed. Outside, history marched past; the splendid city of Tanis fell into ruin; sand drifted over the tomb, and hid it. It lay undisturbed by wars and warriors-Assyrians, Macedonians, Roman legions, the cavalry of the Mamelukes, the sweating, roaring British truck drivers of World...