Word: vernally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handles. In Portland, Ore., two autos had a brush in traffic. The drivers: Vernal Forrest and Sylvan Woods. In Dothan, Ala., Private Harvard Yale Princeton reported for duty. In Washington, Earl Wedding sued for divorce...
...vernal equinox, whether it wants to or not, spring comes to the District of Columbia. On that day, each year, shivering photographers, muffled to the cheekbones, escort a beauteous damsel to the Tidal Basin and tell her to go climb a tree. Usually the Cherry Blossom Queen, posing as regally as possible while sitting on a knobby tree branch, gets runs in her stockings, barked knuckles and a ruffled temper...
...with a fanatic faith." In fact, Adolf was feeling fine, and said so. "I thank providence that this struggle came during my lifetime, at a time when I still felt fresh and strong. And just now I feel so well, so fresh. Spring is coming." Benito, too, hailed the vernal equinox. "I say beautiful things will be seen in every one of the four cardinal points...
...quarrel with the variety of peculiar and ingenious solutions. But the efforts of the Kirkland House Committee seem to me to be less skillfully devised. Now that Lent is over, I am not sure that the formula of bad meals eaten in silence will be enough to restrain undergraduate vernal exuberance...