Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After weeks of heavy fog, the winter sun broke through last week and shone brightly on Berlin. The sound of the airlift planes, which had dwindled to a whisper, swelled to a cheering roar. Not since the blockade began had the morale of West Berlin been so high...
Harvard Club of Eastern New York, Albany, Edward S. Godfrey III '34, 235 Lenox ave,; Harvard Club of Fairmont, West Virginia, James O. Watson '00, Watson Building; Harvard Club of Houston, Nathaniel Ware '34, 323 Bankers Mortgage Building; Harvard Club of Jacksonville, Josiah D. Segal '21, P.O. Box 329; Harvard Club of Kansas City, Ralph W. Elis '26, 1001 Commerce Building...
Albany, December 23; Atlanta, December 20; Birmingham; Buffalo; Cedar Rapids; Charlotte; Chicago; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Columbus; Concord, Mass.; Dos Moines; Detroit, December 28; FairMont, West Virginia; Grand Rapids; Houston; Jacksonville, December 29; Kansas City...
...called because the original settlement, De-Witt's Corner, was moved two miles due west early in the 19th Century...
Surer of echoes in the American ear are certain voices of the more-distant prewar era (now making Bartlett for the first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...