Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was necessary, said President Truman, if the U.S. was to keep its pledges to Europe and the rest of the world. Otherwise the world food crisis might turn into the worst famine of modern times-"More people face starvation and even actual death for want of food today than in any war year and perhaps more than in all the war years combined...
...sell cotton at all, the cotton bloc has legislated the U.S. into paying a subsidy of 4? a pound on all cotton sold in world markets, previously enough to allow the U.S. cotton to compete. (Shipping costs make the Brazil-U.S. price difference less than actual prices indicate.) But last week's sharp rise in cotton prices raised a new problem: now the subsidy will have to be increased or the U.S. will not be able to compete any better than before...
...explain to parents why Baby sometimes does not seem to behave like a civilized human being. Based largely on pictures shot through a so-called "one-way-vision dome" at Yale University's Clinic of Child Development (conducted by famed Dr. Arnold Gesell and staff), it shows actual examples of Baby's coming to grips with the world: at four weeks barely able to move the head, at four months gaining control of the fingers, at four years able to stick out the tongue at whoever happens to be handy. The film provides a quick glance...
Army and Navy reluctance were blamed in part for the drop in veteran's registration from the 1500 figure predicted last week to the actual total of 1100, which, together with the handful of incoming school students, made up a 1171 total for Friday, and Saturday morning, when Memorial Hall was kept open for late comers...
...there will be no last-minute changes in room assignments, or the course catalogue, for these horrors are merely scale models of the real thing. As described in the current "Alumni Bulletin," they are highly detailed groups depicting actual, though anonymous, instances of sudden death constructed for use by students of legal medicine...