Word: imprint
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...play basketball and baseball at Michigan this spring. But to Tom Harmon it was worth it. From East and West came radio offers (including a fabulous tie-up with Bing Crosby), movie contracts from Warner Brothers and M. G. M., a flood of fan letters (including just the imprint of a girl's lips...
...Spain and France there was no rejoicing, only a queer, unreal enthusiasm. Arriba of Madrid, the Falangist paper, tried to take consolation in a link of blood with ancient Germans. Basques, Asturians, Castilians, it said, "bear the unmistakable imprint of their Visigoth origin." In Paris, Le Temps's editorial writer cut a tiny gem of black futility: "There are days when it is difficult to write anything at all on any subject whatsoever...
...around it. The second and third came in two successive years - the terrible plague of 1665 (70,000 dead) and the Great Fire of 1666, which left only one-fifth of the walled city standing. The fourth came last week. Perhaps not in physical damage but certainly in its imprint on the human mind, last week's was the worst. The first three were impersonal. This was the work...