Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" exemplifies the first phase, "Ulysses" the second, and "Finnegan's Wake" the last. If it might seem to some readers that the last two have achieved only the most tenuous relationship with "others," Levin's study does much to strengthen the bond...
Started in the fall term, the plan for buying a defense bond a week by the janitors and maids of Eliot House has definitely taken root. James Mazza, assistant head janitor of Eliot House, authored the plan whereby 19 of the personnel take numbers, and contribute $1 a week towards a defense bond. The numbers are drawn to determine the order of receiving the weekly bond...
...more for the U.S. Treasury; 52 for the State Department, promoting Allied and Hemisphere solidarity; twelve for the Rockefeller Committee and its Hemisphere good-will program; one for the Department of Agriculture, publicizing Lend-Lease aid to the Allies; a recruiting short for the U.S. Merchant Marine; three more bond-selling shorts, and an Army anti-tank-rifle training film for Canada; a series of U.S. Army training films similar to the Navy...
...seated at his special mike, leaning his tired head on his fingers and forgetting to ham it, he played Romeo to his blooming daughter Diana's Juliet. He had coached her for a week and she was good. In the brief respite from radio routine, everyone felt the bond between father and daughter, the oddity of the old love poetry, the Shakespearean depths of grace...
...even forgeting this period in our national history, it is hard to hold a brief for American purity. The very essence of belief in democracy denies it. We lay claim to basic truth because we feel there is a common bond in the wants of all men, because we feel that the hopes and fears that are in us are in others, because we feel that our type of liberty will unite all men. The essence of this belief is neither liberty nor equality, but fraternity. To set ourselves apart and above the remainder of the world is to deny...