Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last night, the absence of D'Oyly Carte had made 1949 a pretty cheerless spring for this Gilbert and Sullivan fan. But some devoted enthusiasts at Winthrop House and Radcliffe thought the situation intolerable, and under the direction of Sam Wilson, they have set it right with a rollicking presentation of "Trial by Jury...
...bought into Portsmouth Steel and Interlake Steamship Co., a Great Lakes ore carrier, and increased its holdings of Pittston Co., one of the world's largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying...
...frightening idea really began to ake hold on June 24, 1947. That was the lay when Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho ooked out of his airplane near Mt. Rainier nd saw-or thought he saw-nine enormous discs flying at 1,200 m.p.h. The .ewspapers began to talk about "flying saucers...
...when Monty Stratton, a Texas farm boy, got an irresistible yen for professional baseball. By 1938 Monty had become an ace pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. In the same year, as the result of a hunting accident, he lost his right leg and (so the sport world thought) all chance for a future in professional baseball. But Monty had courage as well as a good right arm. Bolstered by thousands of fan letters and an artificial leg, he fought his way back to the mound. By 1946 he had begun again as a pitcher in the Class C East...
Quibbling Oldsters. Aubrey loved the medieval manor house, half dwelling, half barnyard, where the cackling and lowing of livestock were "then thought not . . . ill musique." But, unlike most antiquarians, he never allowed nostalgia to blind him to the bad aspects of the good old days: "The conversation and habits of those times were as starcht as their bands and square beards; and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit even in their sermons...