Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into familiar attitudes-little Justices Black and Frankfurter, alert and quick of eye, just able to peer over the back of the high mahogany bench; Murphy with a starched, far-off look; Jackson with his openwork, Dutch expression; Rutledge rocklike, Reed massive and heavy-jowled, Harold Burton with an air of avuncular interest. The court began to hand out what is promised by the marble figures on the wall: Divine Inspiration, Justice, Wisdom and Truth...
They managed a judicial air. Despite management's worst fears, they had not gone overboard for the cause of labor. They had, for example, upheld the right of the separate states to pass laws against closed shops; they had sternly and righteously reminded John L. Lewis of the majesty of the law, upheld his conviction for contempt...
Some international crises get into the headlines and some, no less real, hang quietly and ominously in the air. One of the quiet sort is now building up. Until a few months ago Britain's recovery was one of the most hopeful signs in the world picture. In April, British exports to the U.S. dropped 38% below March, widening the famous "gap" between what Britain has to pay out for dollar imports and what she can sell for dollars...
...Harvard's spang new Lamont Library is off limits to Radcliffe. Most girls are like the one in the picture directly below, on the outside looking in on the air conditioned wonders of the new library...
Though the weather holds most ozoners down to a 30-week season, except in such places as California and Florida, some install portable electric heaters in each car. This season an engineer has stepped forward with the last word-an air-conditioning scheme that will keep the cars not only cozy against wintry blasts but cool and dry in the August heat...