Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...extraordinary how much that feeble light had meant to us. While it was there we had forgotten the intense discomfort. But as soon as it disappeared the world suddenly became a darker and a colder place, and I, for one, felt for the first time the vastness of the ocean. How could any ship hope to find us? It seemed impossible...
...Vote once more on Anti-Lynching, which has an early, preferred place on the House calendar and is bound to raise a rumpus in the Senate (where the bill died last year...
...feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said he, "it makes me hot just to think of it." Flap-jowled Mr. Drennon coolly surveyed his spacious new office, announced that he proposed to cooperate with "the efficient remains of the machine," comfortably added: "I like good living. . . . This place suits me fine...
...Place and circumstance might have been used as a symbol by a more rhetorical man than former football guard Mayor Lamberton. For while the city jingled, beneath the mayor's feet was Philadelphia's deep, dark financial hole...
...attempting to include as many pictures as possible so as to appeal to a growing audience, several pages contain more than one photo and in one place there are a dozen shots mashed together. These little two-bit jobs hardly do justice to some of the pictures, which often deserve more space than was allotted to them. The reproductions of the monochromes are well done, but a few of the color plates, especially the advertisement on page 220, are below...