Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides the statistical swallow that February brought, there were enough others to promise spring. Since last July, the Treasury has collected an average of $3,400,000,000 a month in taxes, chiefly because payrolls and business activity have held up far better than anyone expected. In February, the Treasury took in $3,678,000,000, not far below February last year when war production was at its peak...
...from the Tomb. The scientists of the new Astromental Era had remade the Earth so completely that when "F.W." emerged from his coffin (he wore the swallow-tailed coat and cracked patent-leather shoes that he had been buried in), he could not believe that he was in California. The ground was as flat as a pancake. The whole world had become a garden city without political frontiers, war, disease or extremes of climate...
...important as possible against the day when Congress might merge them. The Navy had a clear duty and responsibility for overseas bases and the ships to base there-but beyond that, the Navy was trying to make itself too big a mouse for the Army-Air Force cat to swallow if the dreaded merger should come...
...easily, produced. Last week it got a fairly good production, turned out to be a fairly lively evening. If the hey-nonny-nonny sometimes breathed a desperate gaiety, most of the melodrama was pretty sound theater. And there were snatches of much-loved poetry (Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. . .). Most Shakespearean in reciting his lines (though he fell short in acting) was Actor Daniell. But word-spitting, eye-flashing, more-sulphurous-than-Shakespearean Florence Reed (The Shanghai Gesture) seemed to have the most...
When a flu epidemic hit Georgia in 1938, it felled the only available white doctor in Jasper and Putnam counties, left hundreds of his rural patients with one hard-to-swallow recourse. They had to call on gentle Dr. Frederick D. Funderburg, a Negro physician. Working virtually around the clock, Dr. Funderburg attended as many as 60 white patients a day, succeeded in checking the epidemic...