Word: baldingly
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President Conant reasoned as follows: "The bald fact about the possibility of war is that any step we take, or even failure to take any step at all, so long as Hitler is in the ascendant, may lead to war." And for this reason he urges our sending an expeditionary force to Europe if that is the only way Hitler can be defeated. What this means...
...British Parliament passed an Emergency Powers Defense Act giving the Government full control over everybody and everything. As Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could -if he chose-walk into London's stuffy Athenaeum Club, tap the Archbishop of Canterbury on his bald pate and order him to Sussex to dig trenches. Having, as the London Times put it, placed "our ancient liberties ... in pawn for victory," Britons wondered what their Government intended to do about it. Last week they found...
...Helsinki, where he has been helping distribute American gifts among Finnish war orphans, bald old Composer Jean Sibelius received a big parcel of food and coffee from Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President...
...early December it was a marshy morass. Mud-stained steelworkers slopped around in boots, sometimes worked up to their thighs in mud to get the arsenal's skeleton started. When the snows came they skinned along icy girders in biting wind, grinned back at the constructing quartermaster, bald, sunny Major H. R. Kadlec, when he asked them if the going was getting too tough. The few complaints they made were settled by their business agents and Kadlec (Detroiters called him Cadillac...
...room on the sixth floor of the Washington Building (which also houses a nightclub, a liquor store, a nut shop, a division of the U. S. Treasury). At 11:15 each morning (10:15 on Saturdays), twelve to 15 of its 40 young members (only two are bald) gather on the floor to smoke, talk politics, discuss sporting events, occasionally trade in 40 stocks and nine bonds for their own or customers' accounts. Of the 49 listed securities, four account for 75% of the trading (Washington Gas Light common and preferred, Capital Transit, Mergenthaler Linotype). Some days there...