Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsomest ghost town of World War II-Mouat, a $15 million investment in chrome-sat on a shelf of Montana's Bear Tooth Mountains last week, all but deserted...
After World War I, U.S. railroads were lazy from lack of competition. Their idea of what-to-do-about-the-postwar-travel-boom was to see if the traffic would bear a 20% increase in passenger fares. They found out: the U.S. automobile and bus industries, then in swaddling clothes, grew up almost overnight, while the railroads started down the long toboggan toward the almost bottomless pit of 1932.* Last week Railway Age, in its annual Passenger Progress issue, published a survey of what railroad executives propose to do for the postwar passenger this time. Their "practically unanimous opinion...
...weather has been pretty comfortable this year. But I, for one, hate to think of the coming winter after two years on the southern fringes of the U. S. I tried to give a transfusion last week and couldn't bleed at all. Seems that my corpuscles couldn't bear to leave me, or each other. We three have come to be very attached to one another...
...Gilberts, for instance. He must have realized that last week's Solomons action might be partly a diversion. He probably had means of hearing excerpts from a speech Admiral Nimitz made in Honolulu last week: "Before we can bring our fast-growing air and naval superiority to bear on the Japanese homeland, we must secure adequate bases close enough to that homeland. This will be done...
...loyalty to their Master they must bear their witness against practices, amusements and conversations that assume fornication is natural . . . must be loyal to the Christian standard-namely, all sexual intercourse except between man and wife...