Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admits, for instance, that Russia is a threat to the U.S., but he wants to wait awhile before making any prognostications about it. "You can't hurry events," he says. His gift for keeping his own counsel applies also to the periodicals he reads, although he did allow that he thought TIME was "a good magazine...
...Norwegian parents, he worked his way through the University of Minnesota as a telephone maintenance man. In April 1939, young Dr. Hafstad got in on the ground floor of nuclear energy by publishing, with associates, the first paper on "delayed neutrons." Delayed neutrons make an atomic pile possible: they allow time for adjusting its speed of reaction...
...There is no such thing as an inevitable war ... Is there not talk once again of a possible meeting between Truman and Stalin? ... If they could work together to conduct a war, it should be easier to work together to maintain peace . . . Allow me to ask my Christian colleagues if they do not agree that we are reaching a point of historical renewal comparable to the end of the pagan domination of the world . . . May this be the year of peace...
...Undoubtedly, gentlemen, from the standpoint of constitutional doctrine, this is the way the article should read . . ." Then, to shouts of "We want Perón!" he declared: "Not only am I not going to accept a second term, but I don't believe that my health would allow...
Since she gave away her houses in Chicago and Pittsfield to allow more money for music, Mrs. Coolidge has been living in a two-room apartment at the Hotel Continental. She continues to plan for the future, looking forward to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Foundation next year. For, the past she says, "I've had my share of thanks." And they have been plentiful. Though she was not decorated by the Russians when she gave a festival in Moscow in 1931, she has the Legion of Honor from France and Belgium's Order of the Crown and Order...