Word: among
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick around and help clear up the snarl of bills still wedged tight in conference committee. Then, Senators began arguing among themselves about responsibility for their own delays...
...vary, but there is almost universal bitterness against white men-a small minority in every country who have arrogated to themselves all the most important political prerogatives, economic resources and cultural opportunities." The leaders have little contact with one another and Communism as a movement has little influence-"though among the native peoples there is a vague appeal in the use of the word as a symbol of racial equality...
...this the traditional summer rise (since 1897 the market has registered an average midsummer gain of 16% over the spring lows) or the beginning of a long upward pull? One Philadelphia broker thought "Those who now remain on the sidelines might find themselves among the crowd scrambling for stocks 20 points higher." But many were still pessimistic. The mid-August short interest was 2,006,119 shares, a 17-year high...
...York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram also took a cautious view. He saw "encouraging signs" of an uptrend, but he also called at the White House to tell President Truman how production and new investment could be stimulated by tax cuts. Among his recommendations...
...Magical 100 Per Cent Effective Water." Perhaps its crowning triumph came in 1944, when an Army chaplain took some snapshots of South Pacific natives just liberated from the Japanese. One picture showed a native woman in front of a thatched jungle hut, surrounded by her possessions-meager indeed, but among them one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the grandmotherly face on the label mild and benign as ever...