Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have at hand your issue of Dec. 25, in which you state . . . that President Roosevelt "selected especially perfect pines for Christmas gifts; sent 500 to the market...
...office of the U. S. Attorney Gen eral there rises a mural, full of social significance and figures of ample-bosomed, pensive women. Those great art critics, the Washington correspondents, have never agreed about its social significance, but they are sure that the guy in the right-hand corner is making soft talk to the bare foot woman in pink. One day last week a big crowd of them stood brooding before it when a side door opened and into the room walked Frank Murphy, elevated that morning from the Attorney-Generalship to the Supreme Court of the United States...
...danger to Scandinavia rolled up swiftly like a thundercloud. No Scandinavian head has lain entirely easy since Russia attacked Finland, but the new danger sprang indirectly from a humanitarian impulse. The world's heart had gone out to the Finns, and nation after nation put out a helping hand. Sooner or later Germany was certain to grow uneasy because of this world hostility to her quasi ally, Russia...
...that there was not the slightest sign of bullet marks on or in Unity's head. "The only thing wrong with her head is that it is turned!" shrugged M. Micouleau after kindly British tars had carried Unity safely aboard a Channel packet while her mother held her hand. She looked pale, dull-eyed and tottery but presently sat up, laughed and chattered with her mother...
...their gift be left intact; but this is precisely what Mr. Hutchins's plan would eliminate. His theory is that the endowed college should maintain its present prestige instead of sacrificing it to an uncertain future in which inflation may wipe out all its holdings. The dove in the hand is better than the sparrow on the roof. Apres nous le deluge...