Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere groups seemed to be splitting apart; invective and insinuation were replacing arguments over policy; thousands of healthv U.S. citizens were innocently carrying out Nazi strategy or contributing to the effect that Hitler wanted to achieve-a paralysis of the U.S. will...
...Harvard Professor Baldensberger on the tempting theme of Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess. This version of the story may be good French literature, but it certainly is not good theatre. It has an undoubted appeal for the many students who can understand French when it is spoken rapidly, but apart from this esoteric group the appeal is definitely limited, since a reading knowledge will not suffice...
...determine which are to occupy the various available sections at the games. It is hoped that under the new plan persons who fail to apply together, but still want to be near each other or to meet after the games will usually be not more than a few rows apart or at least in the same section...
...Rockies, where today there are seven plants (two owned by U.S. Steel, three owned by Bethlehem, two independents) with 1,029,670 tons capacity. Even before the defense boom, Coast consumption far exceeded its capacity; now, with a terrific expansion of shipbuilding, demand and supply are farther apart than ever. A big local steel industry to make the West independent of the East has long been a pet idea of the Army, was urged by President Roosevelt in 1939. Existing steel companies say it would cost more to make steel on the Coast than to ship it from Chicago...
...Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna to Prague, to Vienna, through Switzerland, to France, to Geneva, at times together, at times apart, in & out of jail, sickness, food, shelter and luck, at length to find relative peace, if not security, in the tolerance of a Paris which "had assimilated all the migrations of the century." Steiner has hardly joined them there when a letter from his dying wife draws him to Germany...