Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later, undoubtedly would head up the potent Resources Administration in wartime, through it would strictly control the production, financing, prices, labor of all U. S. industry. Their job in peace is to review the minutely detailed plans for industrial mobilization drawn up by the War & Navy Departments, bring to bear the imposing sum of their knowledge and experience to spot and correct any defects...
...shade less conservative than Dr. Colijn, Jonkheer de Geer reluctantly accepted. But, he told his colleagues, the vote of no confidence was a mistake, since it threatened to continue political chaos. "I love my country too much to want those who made this mistake to be compelled to bear its full consequences. At this moment this would be too dangerous from a national as well as an international point of view...
Alarmed by the sudden drop, the Government has been urging women to marry early, bear often. Alarmed, too, by the gaps left by warriors departed for China, it has urged women into jobs. On farms they have virtually supplanted men. Factories, particularly heavy industries, are hiring more & more...
...garret, Bogousslavsky explained, he had taken the painting, had diligently spent his time removing "tar" from it and retouching faded colors. Said he, "I have always loved Watteau. I could not bear to see it in the Louvre in such condition...
...Atlas of Hollywood, bear-necked Cinemactor Victor McLaglen, 52, was sued for nonpayment of a doctor's bill for "monkey gland shots" given to him periodically since 1935. "Well," he hemmed, "the doctor said they would improve my complexion...