Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neutra is designing a Palm Springs desert hideaway for Pittsburgh Millionaire Edgar J. Kaufmann, whose famed house in Bear Run, Pa.-designed by Wright-overhangs a waterfall. Compared with Wright's cantilevered castle-in-the-air, Neutra's Kaufmann house will be down to earth, with the low-flying flat roofs, glass walls and furnished terraces of a house turned inside out. To make life as smooth outdoors as in, the four courtyards will have walls and floors piped for summer cooling and winter heating...
...unimportant or sordid for Boss Patel. Recently he took charge of negotiations between the Congress Party Ministry in Bombay and the Western Indian Turf Association, which wanted to renew its license for the Bombay racetrack. Patel, who has never seen a horse race, knew what the traffic would bear. He upped the license fee from half a million rupees to three million...
...great people from one military ordeal to another throughout the course of centuries in order to assure the security of their own oppressive regimes. No one is more aware of this than the Soviet leaders themselves; and no one is more conscious than they of the terrible responsibility they bear to the doctrine of Marxism for the acts they have perpetrated in its name...
...When we stop to examine the facts we find that in every parish and diocese it is largely the few who bear the burden and heat of the day. . . . The churches are at a tremendous disadvantage, for we are in essence waging a desperate spiritual warfare in a most critical period of history, at the same time carrying a vast weight of nominal Christians who, as someone has remarked, having been once inoculated by weak religion, seem to be impervious to the real thing...
...seven months of the bear market, stocks have fallen so much and trading has been so dull that many a company has not been able to float new security issues, get cash needed for expansion. Four days before the FRB announcement, the market had its worst sinking spell in nearly two months. Stocks fell one to ten points; the Dow-Jones industrial averages dropped 2.76 points to 172.49. The day after the announcement, the market, which had recovered somewhat, bounced up, even though margin trading would not actually start till February...