Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end another big batch of hopefuls arrived in Canada to seek just that. The Empire Brent pulled into Halifax with 831 brides and children aboard. All but 20 (headed for the U.S.) would settle in Canada, bring the number of the British brides and children who have arrived close...
...Landshut, Bavaria, where they are fed twice as well as the Germans outside. Chief complaint of the German scientists is the slowness of their mail (six weeks from Germany) and the absence of their families. As soon as possible, the Army promises, families will be brought over. The first batch sailed last week. The Germans see a new hope in that fact. Some day, they have been told, they may have a chance to become U.S. citizens. The fact that the U.S. is bringing their families to them seems to be a kind of guarantee that that is a promise...
...Prize Day in Oslo and Stockholm. Last week one German-born Swiss and six Americans won a batch of Nobel Awards: for Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace* (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Republicans had won the House because they had broken the Democratic stranglehold in the big cities; they had captured the Senate because they had made a clean sweep of six seats in the West and Northwest, once deep-dyed New Deal. Above all, they had won back a sizable batch of the independent vote...
Pocket contents: one reporter's notebook; one address book; one batch name cards, minus which it is almost impossible to do business in China (front of card bears my name in English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which...