Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look at the catalogue of Harvard University for the year 1900-01 to see how successful a great American institution of learning was at that time in embracing the whole of the known world within its field of vision. The result of such an examination is rather startling. Apart from a section entitled "Indo-Iranian Languages" concerned mainly with Indian classics, there was little to indicate that the world extended beyond the United States, Europe and the extreme west of Asia. There is almost no mention of Asia, Africa, South America, Australia or the islands of the Seven Seas. Their...
Dickie was fighting for one thing. I'm fighting for another. And they ain't so far apart...
...last partner in neutrality. Now he would tell the Cabinet what he had learned. Then Foreign Minister Joaquín Fernández Fernández would report to the Chilean Senate, asking advice on future foreign policy. Finally a choice, so long deferred, would be made: either neutrality apart from the United Nations, or a diplomatic break with the Axis...
...World, they formed "foreign language" enclaves such as the one in Rochester, N.Y., where dark, pun-loving Author Mangione grew up. "Most of my relatives lived in one neighborhood [nicknamed Mount Allegro], not more than five or six blocks from each other. That was about as far apart as they could live without feeling that America was a desolate and lonely place...
...United States to see to it that a totalitarian virus does not corrupt this nation. That will require clear thinking, indomitable patience, and an understanding of the ways of peace. The two assignments--of war and peace--are paradoxically the same and yet far different. As regards methods, miles apart. Indeed, the winning of the war could engender such conditions in our minds that we would be unable to preserve liberty when the time of peace had come. And it is this dilemma which must be considered carefully by every young American, particularly every soldier. For only by recognizing...