Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conversely, if the British could gain mastery of the air, history would turn backward: the Royal Navy could operate with reasonable impunity close to German-held shores, Britain's ancient mastery of the seas would become a hard fact once more and an invasion of Britain would become fantastic...
Jitterbugs are not crazy, wrote Animal Lover Ellsworth Jaeger in Nature Magazine last week. They merely carry on ancient dance patterns which lower animals developed eons before man appeared on the earth. Jive-Justifier Jaeger described jitterbug patterns of 16 animals, ranging all the way from "thread legged bugs" to caribou. Samples...
Good or bad, the figures could not pierce the pall at the Palace. They were ancient history; the delegates were worried about Tomorrow. Long had the Council plumped for more and freer trade, steadily endorsed the reciprocal trade agreement program of Cordell Hull. Last week it watched the Secretary of State take one more backward step in his losing battle for commercial freedom: to the long list of U. S. foreign-trade restrictions was added an embargo on aviation gasoline to countries outside the Western Hemisphere. Free traders confronted in San Francisco the question that lurks at every...
...Canada and the U. S. With swing bands and torch singers, brisk news and political comments, Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley has a pronounced Yorkshire accent which falls more pleasantly on American ears than the nasal whinnys of Oxford...
...Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was also a delegate from Texas, with one-twelfth vote of his own, absent John Nance Garner's proxy. One afternoon a group of fellow newsmen, bored with the New Deal's lumbering steam roller, hired an open car of ancient vintage, trimmed with brass, equipped with a raucous foghorn, and toured the hotel district bearing placards: "Timmons for Vice President...