Word: calling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still other scholarships call for "students of Anglo-Saxon parontage," or for students who are "descendants from at least two grandparents, or more remote ancestors, who were natives of the United States or of Great Britain...
Last week, MoPac officials went all out: they proposed that the dispute be submitted to a panel of referees. MoPac would abide by the decisions of the panel, but the rail unions would not have to. There was only one condition to the offer: call off the strike at once...
...call of the islands had been crooned by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co., a local government agency interested in promoting new business. Under island law, Gardner has to pay neither U.S. income tax nor any Puerto Rican income, property or excise taxes on any of the movies or TV shows he produces. The Puerto Rican exemptions run until 1959 and, as long as he is resident in the islands, he appears to be safe from the U.S. tax collectors. Gardner resents the imputation that he is a tax dodger. "It's just a hell of a good business...
...brisk morning last March, two ladies of serious demeanor paid a call at Brooklyn College. It was important that their mission be kept a secret. So, stating only that they were members of the Public Education Association, they bustled into a large building, hurried down a corridor, and quietly slipped into back-row seats in a history classroom...
Ellen never comes to his call, and the rest of the castle staff, all of whom are English except Paddy, the silent peacock-keeper, are mostly too preoccupied to comfort the dying man. For World War II has started and these English men & women are nervous exiles in a neutral but silently hostile land, half relieved, half ashamed when they think of what they are escaping...