Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which comes from California's Mojave Desert. The companies allegedly had kept prices skyhigh, had eliminated competition, and had hampered the war effort seriously. The antitrust action further charged that American Potash & Chemical was secretly owned by Germans, through a Netherlands dummy company, until October 1942 when the Alien Property Custodian took over...
...people of Maine must have been extraordinarily impatient if, as you state, they founded Bowdoin (in 1794) because they "tired of sending their young men to alien . . . Amherst" (organized in 1821 JOHN S. SMITH Washington...
Mother of Celebrities. Bowdoin was chartered when the people of the District of Maine (then part of Massachusetts) tired of sending their young men to alien Harvard and Amherst. The college was named for Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin, whose son gave it gifts in cash and kind. Bowdoin in turn gave the Union proportionately more Civil Warriors than any other U.S. college and has produced more celebrities per square inch of campus than any rival. Among the celebrities was Longfellow's '25 classmate, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who, at an annual tuition-and-room cost of $34, highlighted four rowdy...
...teens Peter slaved in a steelworks. When World War I started he tried to get into a swank cadet school, was rejected when his father turned out to be an enemy alien (British). Embittered Peter set himself to learn the tricks of wartime Vienna's black market. By war's end he was leading a flourishing double life-as a respectable clerk in the steelworks anda gambler in foreign-currency exchange. The world, he reflects as the story ends, had challenged him to survive...
...heart and mind of Britain may have been across the laden English Channel last week, but Britons did not show it. King and commoners, noble lords, grimy street sweeps went about their usual jobs. To an alien eye the most remarkable thing about Britain in invasion week was its British normality...