Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn rose over the city many still sat half-naked in the doorways along La Salle Street. Others, begrimed and barefooted, stood weeping in the lobby of the City Hall. Forty-three blanketed bodies lay there on the marble floor, their feet carefully tagged, beneath a sign which read: "Pay Water Taxes Here." (At week's end the death list...
...hearsay evidence was not scientific enough for the great fact collector. Darwin wrote to his friend and portraitist Thomas Woolner, begging the advice of "a cautious and careful English artist" on the subject. Thanks to him, Darwin was able to state that "with English women, blushing does not extend beneath the neck and upper part of the chest," but Woolner got little credit for his work on this scientific milestone...
...Tagalog father and a mestizo, (mixed Spanish-Tagalog) mother, he had something of a head start-both his parents were schoolteachers. Their salary was ample: $6 a month each. Their home was a typical thatched nipa hut on stilts, with chickens scratching and hogs grunting in the mud beneath the ladder leading up to the door. Manila in those days was a full week's journey away, over what are still wild, jungle-covered mountains...
...Philharmonic Orchestra. In eight days they played seven concerts, one of them for Rumania's King Michael and his aunt, Princess Elisabeth. Guards with Tommy guns stood at the doors, to protect Government officials in the audience. During the concert, janitors swept the floors, poking with their brooms beneath the feet of annoyed listeners. A huge U.S. flag hung behind Menuhin on stage, the first time it has been centrally displayed in Rumania since...
...Beneath them, in the audience at Washington's National Press Club, sat the three judges, with their copies of Funk & Wagnalls and Merriam Webster's International, the official sources (where the dictionaries differed, either spelling would do). Professor Harold F. Harding, the veteran "official pronouncer," threw a fast one at Mary: flaccid. Mary muffed the catch, spelled it phlaxid. John got it right, spelled the next word, too, semaphore, to cinch the national spelling championship...