Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young disbursing officer Ensign Water Tight Drawers arose for his first day of duty. All of his specimens from the Harvard supply school were neatly stacked from the deck of the cabin to the roof ... Yes, he had this stuff cold ... The G. A. O. was just a blow ... After all congress passed a relieving bill to keep all D. O.s out of Portsmouth after the last...
Spring had come, and the University announced that athletics would be distinctly curtailed for the duration. Then the Crimson withdrew from the Eastern Baseball League, and later in the spring football was ruled off the books. It was a prepared death blow; most people expected...
Democrats moaned in the immemorial anguish of the gerrymandered. Cried they: "Steal," "dastardly," "foul blow." Replied Governor Martin: "It's just the good old American way. When we Republicans were in the minority, we bellyached when they ran over us. It just has to be done...
United They Stand? If geographical division is a blow to Germany and Japan, it may also force them closer together in their political and military planning. If they would survive, Germany and Japan now have to coordinate their counter-measures most carefully...
...newfangled notion that public debt can go on growing forever without doing any harm got a sock on the chin last week. The blow was aimed primarily at Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. and Professor Alvin H. Hansen, special economic adviser to Federal Reserve System, whose articles have appeared in FORTUNE. Peripheral victim: the National Resources Planning Board...