Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step towards the active participation of our Latin American allies in active conflict, wouldn't it be a splendid idea to organize a Pan-American aviation unit...
...great slices of roast beef. In the summer young people danced on the hilltops under the moon. In the winter they leaped from steam baths into snowbanks and shouted that life was good. They ate wild strawberries and boasted of their glass works, their great forests and their splendid modern buildings...
Everything in TIME was worth reading Sept. 7-a splendid number. Only one little criticism: In your Knox write-up you say: "Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in strong talk and the Big Stick...
...good friend Arthur Krock been sending shivers down your spine?" he asked reporters at his press conference. "There is no plan in the War Department to use military correspondents to replace civilians. There are now more than 230 civilian correspondents in the war theaters and they are doing a splendid...
...Pushman studio on Manhattan's 57th Street, shrouded in a velvety dimness, are all the beautiful things which Artist Pushman loves and exquisitely paints. For 20 years they have been appearing in his still lifes: tiny porcelain vases, lustrous Aegean flasks, Tibetan figurines, pieces of splendid brocade, the yellowed pages of ancient books. In his tallboy, lined with crimson plush, are row upon row of Buddhas, Oriental gods of war, of laughter, or mercy, of unimaginable things. Mr. Pushman says gently...