Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME WOULD DISCOVER AND TELL THE WORLD THE NEW "PHILADELPHIA STORY." WE HAVE BEEN HOPING THAT THE CLEAR, CLARION VOICE OF TIME WOULD RISE ABOVE THE DIN OF THE CHATTER AND "LET-THE-MUD-FLY" CONCEPTION OF PUBLIC SERVICE HELD BY OUR LOCAL ADMIXTURE OF RIGHT-WING, LEFT-WING . . . THANK YOU FOR YOUR OBJECTIVE APPRAISAL OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN THE 1949 CAMPAIGN AS MEN OF ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE POLITICAL PURITY...
...automobiles, a motorboat, two television sets, a radio, two watches, a $100 hat, an electric blanket, shirts, ties, a watch chain, potatoes, oranges, walnuts, lima beans, homemade lemonade, 300 quarts of ice cream. After the speeches, Joe bit his lip and let the tears run down his cheeks. "I thank the good Lord that he made me a Yankee," he said...
...inning victory over the Phillies. In the final week, they had gone to the top of the league (after six weeks in second place) by winning a crashing doubleheader in the rain over the Boston Braves (9-2 and 8-0). But they had less reason to thank their own bats than the batty stretch-run performance of the Cardinals...
...Yourself Go. For an "inhibited" patient, Salter prescribes "excitatory" exercises. First & foremost is "feeling-talk." The sentence, "Today is Friday" is dry, inhibited "fact-talk." Salter would rather hear his patient getting some emotional outlet by saying, "Thank heavens, today is Friday and the weekend is here." There is also "facial talk": if a cat purrs when it is happy and a dog howls when its paw is stepped on, so should a man-or at any rate, scowl. From this it is.a mere step to another Salter prescription: "Contradict and attack. When you differ with someone, do not simulate...
Free Hand. If it did, Britain could thank sharp-faced, elderly (66) Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. Sir Geoffrey, who had designed and flown his first plane in 1909 (it crashed), has turned out some of Britain's best-known military planes (Mosquito, Vampire). It was his firm that developed the famed Ghost jet engine that shot a De Havilland fighter to the world's altitude record (56,400 ft.) and started Sir Geoffrey thinking about a jet transport...