Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the United Nations, we desire to maintain the closest possible relations with the U.S. and the United Kingdom, and do what we can to see that those two countries remain on terms of friendly understanding with each other. Canada knows well that, if they fall apart, her own position would be impossible, as she would be forced to choose between her two friends. That would be an impossible choice. ... If [they] cannot work amicably together, there is certainly no hope for the United Nations...
...also wrestling with the artificial division of surpluses into capital and consumer goods. Identical items might be classified differently, warehoused thousands of miles apart, described in Army or Navy nomenclature no civilian buyer could understand...
...Emily Dickinson (This Was a Poet). Writes he: ". . . We are prone to belittle what colleges [before the Civil War] were contributing [and to] think complacently of the bargain-counter curriculum currently spread before the freshmen's fastidious eyes. [But it is wrong to conclude] that education took place apart from and even in spite of the college.. , . The student of the 18405 . . . was going to college with an earnestness that his successors might well envy. He was not dabbling in the waters of learning; he was completely submerged...
...vengeance he called out 53,000 mine workers in 1941 and wrecked the Mediation Board which Franklin Roosevelt had set up in an effort to keep labor peace while the country armed for war. He split labor apart. Congress was so incensed that it was ready to torpedo national policy just to sink John Lewis...
Boston's oracle took a last wistful look at the ster's paper tearing him apart. "If I could write without the criticisms of editors and monitors," he said cryptically, "I'd write like this...