Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added attraction, a Manhattan nightclub with an eye for publicity introduced to its patrons last week a zebra (see cut) with a hangdog expression, accompanied by Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. To the great delight of photographers, the zebra, after posing wearily for its picture, shook itself from head to foot, tripped Tamer Buck, sent him sprawling to his knees...
...without undue restrictions. We often echo the lament of Ecclesiastes, but it is only over-much study that is a weariness of the flesh. It is as true today as when Cicero said it that books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour, and the treasures remain. The field of learning widens but work becomes specialized and subdivided, and each scholar may know his part. All are under obligation to the munificence of past generations...
Those of the 400,000,000 Chinese people who heard about it hailed with wild delight this magnificent success, their first major victory in ten months of war. Cracked China's famed "Christian General," General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The Japanese are soft-shelled turtles in a closed...
Because he is only a sophomore this year, Kendall would probably have developed into one of the world's greatest natators in two more years. His energetic sprint style has always caused audiences to howl with delight, while his distance stroke is a model of effortless power, featuring an amazingly powerful kick...
...Girdler hopes never to be in such a position again and one good way to forestall it is to make his $364,000,000 company less dependent upon labor. Since this is also the path of progressive technology, Tom Girdler found double delight last week in formally opening what Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre pile in Cleveland's desolate Cuyahoga River valley, the new $15,000,000 plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum...