Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carefully Communists probe the antecedents of anyone they intend to make use of, Intelligence did not risk assigning to the case a professional operative with a past which could come to light. They approached an ordinary stenographer -or rather an exceptionally pretty one- who readily agreed to do her bit for King & Country, joined the Friends...
Lady Luck, the Federal income tax, and the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes did not combine in astronomical figures for any member of the University who was doing his bit for charity, but five persons under the name of "The Harvard Syndicate" are each $100 richer today...
Although this week's swimming will not be Charlie's last bit of collegiate competition, he will undoubtedly be a good deal faster in his own pool, where he'll be splashing for his last time...
...among the goyim. Goy does not mean a Christian. Goyim literally means a people of the earth ; in slang it means a non-Jew, an infidel. . . . Women were absolved of rituals and incapacitated to worship. Non-Jews, infidels, presumably never learned the true light. The last view is a bit narrow-minded, but characteristic of all orthodox religions. Anyway, it is far cry between "Thank God I am neither dog nor Christian" and . . . "Thank God I am neither slave nor infidel...
...this soprano melody are developed into full-length choruses that tell of Christ's death and resurrection at the beginning of the cantata, and, in the middle, of the horrible struggle between life and death. The work is essentially dramatic; and Mlle. Boulanger's interpretation, though perhaps a bit too a la francaise, brings out the drama to the full...