Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern women are demanding equality with men in almost every field of activity these days, but they will never be respected as intellectual equals as long as they allow money-seeking style-mongers to dictate a complete change in wardrobe every few years...
...Church and the world of the idea that the success of the Church is contingent on preventing wars or saving man or society from destruction, or that the validity of the Christian faith is in the slightest imperiled even if the whole world be destroyed. . . . God did not allow man to discover [atomic energy] until He was ready that man should discover it. Whether it is God's intention to use this means to bring this world to an end, or to lead it into a new era of creativity, it is impossible...
...coconut will be crammed with control apparatus, batteries and instruments. The bathyscaphe will carry enough oxygen to keep two men alive for more than 32 hours, and chemicals to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by their breathing. Powerful searchlights outside the cabin will light up the sea, and allow fish and other bathyfauna to be observed and photographed. Because time for note-taking will be short, a recording device will bring back a running commentary on the dive. The depth ship's experimental compass will be outside the cabin too, since the earth's magnetism will...
...against Smith would serve his ends, by according him free publicity... We believe that there is only one way to fight fascists--and that is by fighting them! Smith may have had only 35 supporters at this meeting, but it would be the height of folly, and danger, to allow Smith to continue speaking in Boston until, aided by the approaching depression, he can build himself a following of 3500 or 35,000. Smith had to be taught that fascists are unwelcome in Boston, and equally important, the people of Boston had to learn that they are not powerless against...
When Arthur still refused to serve in the Army, he was imprisoned again. His father traveled hundreds of miles to prisons all over the country, taking him clean clothing, cozening prison officials to allow him a few words with his son. Released, he went back to Maerdy, resumed his organizing work. "He was a bloody nuisance to everybody," said one of his critics. "Maerdy was run like a blasted Soviet." Soon Maerdy became known as Little Moscow...