Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illustrating the New Deal's most extensive and most architecturally significant projects, pictures, models, and plans of the Tennessee Valley Authority's 10 great dams are being shown in Robinson Hall with the collaboration of the Museum of Modern Art, of New York...
...people had been beaten and battered from one end of China to the other. Their cities had been bombed, their soldiers gassed, their women raped. From Valley Forge through Valley Forge he has fought and gone on fighting. The aid that the democracies promised him was never enough. But he kept on. In earlier years he fought a retiring battle. But in 1941 he fought the Japanese to a standstill. That was an achievement neither British nor Americans have yet accomplished. If he does not measure up to the standard of Man of the Year, it is because other...
...years Hong Kong had stood handsomely for the Imperial Way of Life. The Happy Valley Race Course was smooth and fast. The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull. Shops bore names that circled the rim of Empire: Kelly & Walsh sold Britons their books, Whiteaway & Laidlaw sold them practically everything else. The white monolithic skyscraper of the Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank dominated the island's waterfront as it dominated Britain's Pacific Empire, looking down upon the lesser establishments of Jardine, Matheson...
...Green Was My Valley (Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Pidgeon; TIME...
Among these historical drives and personalities Author Carmer sets his fictional machinery in motion. Hero Nathan Hart, as a fugitive Whiskey Rebel and amateur portrait painter, leads readers on a Cook's tour of the whole valley civilization, from the Williamson mansion to the Indian village of Squawkie Hill. He also has three love affairs: with The Friend's pet priestess, with patrician Eleanor Fitzhugh, and with Catherine O'Bail, whom at long last, despite her Indian blood, he marries in defiance of the Valley gentry...