Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the stroke lacks solidity and uniform width as well as being unbalanced, it would indicate an inexperienced artist...
Only 10% of the city's streetcars had survived eight years of war. They rattled slowly through the streets, crowded with men in uniform, women in mompei, the wartime pantaloons. All Tokyo had only 60 busses left. Women conductors still bowed formally when passengers paid their fares, bowed at the few passing busses...
With his ancestors' 700-year-old samurai sword buckled at the side of his faded, patched uniform, fierce, bullet-headed General Tomoyuki Yamashita came trudging out of northern Luzon's Caraballo Mountains...
With Davis Cup play due for resumption next summer, the championships were a useful inventory of U.S. talent. Talbert and Parker seem certain team choices. Their fellow-travelers may well be Champions Lieut. Ted Schroeder and Ensign Jack Kramer, if they are out of uniform by then. Such a foursome seemed a poor bet to win the cup back from the Australians, who have Veterans Jack Bromwich, Adrian Quist and Pat Crawford, as well as an 18-year-old wonder boy named Ducky Pails. The Australians can hardly wait to spring Ducky on the world...
Fifteen million Americans in uniform have gone to the movies during the past five years to learn about such subjects as machine guns, camouflage, venereal disease. Why can't their younger brothers & sisters learn their ABCs the same way? In June, the State of Virginia passed a whopping $1,176,000 one-year appropriation for "visual education" in the public schools...