Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California," he glowed, "is the land of happiness. The ascent to 12,000 feet to cross the Rocky Mountains made us gasp for breath, but the descent at Reno, the rich and verdant oasis of divorce, and that over San Francisco Bay, the most beautiful of landscapes, repaid us for our mountain sickness...
Women, a Thread. Mills College, tucked in the Oakland hills behind the Golden Gate, was trying to make its summer session a rich and verdant oasis of culture. It certainly seemed a little less rushed, a little more cosmopolitan than other campuses in the busy summer of 1942. This aloofness was in keeping with the philosophy of its president, Mrs. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, who, still dark-haired at 65, prides herself on maintaining a historical perspective. Mrs. Reinhardt believes that Mills, the Pacific Coast's finest college for women, has a special role in the defense of civilization. "Women...
Last week Leopold Stokowski led the NBC Symphony again, this time in 8-H. Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony never sounded more lush and verdant. Studio audience, radio listeners and critics were happy. The reverberations were all they should be; radio's biggest concert hall had at last become musicianly. Explained Stokowski: ''We found a way to floodlight sound...
...reminiscing: in 1898 or thereabouts, in the White House, there was one soul who could not sleep for nights. The democracy-loving, civilization-exponent President McKinley was praying in pulsating ardor to his God to guide him in making a decision on what to do with a handful of verdant islands inhabited by 8,000,000 liberty-loving civilization-absorbent ethnological group. . . . [He] intimated American dishonorableness in returning the Islands to Spain, and cruelty in setting her free in a precarious international setup. . . . The American people hailed the decision...
...place to see the tourist crop at its verdant best and worst was along a patch of the Atlantic coastline, 350 miles down from the Georgia border, 145 miles up from the southernmost Florida Key. There lies the "Miami area...