Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business, generally, did not charge all that the traffic would bear-e.g., a new Chevrolet which a dealer sold for $1,500 was actually worth $2,300 on a "used" car lot a block away. But many an industry did not charge as little as its prospect of profits would have allowed. Nor did some industries, notably textiles and shoes, reduce prices when sales slipped. Instead, they preferred to close some plants or curtail production to keep prices...
...here on Bear Creek Valley Ranch read with deep interest your piece on Bob Kleberg and the great King Ranch [TIME...
...preaches sermons that are genuine expositions of the text and sense of Scripture, bringing to bear the great Biblical themes of God's judgment and mercy upon men who are dead in their complacency, self-confidence or pride? Your preachers . . . are still advocating justification by good works of one kind or another (maybe very orthodox or very 'Catholic' good works); they are not proclaiming the Gospel of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. . . . You are still preaching the Law, and a pretty easy going or romantic Law at that...
...different from currency reforms in capitalist countries. In the U.S.S.R. it is being carried out not at the expense of the people. . . . However, the reform demands certain sacrifices. The state is taking on itself the greater part of the sacrifice, but it is also necessary for the population to bear a part -all the more since it will be the last sacrifice...
...Gentleman emerged as a classic of hack Hollywood writing; the gags virtually bear serial numbers. Amusing no one, inflaming no one, the show did a fast fold...