Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legend on Attu by now that the Chaplains have been as splendid under fire as any combat soldiers. Burying the dead is only a small part of the Chaplain's work, but nothing concerns them more than that each dead soldier shall have religious services before his cross is raised...
Prokofieff: Classical Symphony (St. Louis Symphony, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor; 4 sides). The deftest work of modern "neoclassicism" (in which composers play with the mannerisms of Corelli's period) is given a performance not quite as neat as Dimitri Mitropoulos' splendid version (Columbia...
...coldhearted skeptics who sought to debunk Sikaiana with dry research got the shock of their lives from the Navy Hydrographic Office's staid, unromantic Sailing Directions for the Pacific Islands: "The natives are Polynesians and have remarkably light colored skins. They are handsome and have a splendid physique...
...contempt for the present German regime" she is teaching English to German refugees. She added: "My only other contribution to victory lies in the fact that I have been allowed to give 14 blood donations to the plasma bank, and am about to give my 15th. I am in splendid health, and only wish the Red' Cross would permit me to donate more often. It just so happens that I am blind, though I do not let it bother or hinder...
Regardless of what TIME says, President Roosevelt is doing a splendid, bang-up job of leading this country in the most crucial period of American history...