Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans were responding. Item: a carload of clothing for Europe from the students of Missouri's Park College. Item: 40 home-made wash dresses shipped off by the Ladies Relief Society of the Mormon Church in Indianapolis. Item: a triple boost in the number of CARE packages sent abroad last year. The plight of Europe had touched the hearts of men, women & children in the U.S., a nation which had come from Europe...
...Chicago landlords were being offered the following "inducements" by apartment hunters: free dental care for life, a refrigerator, a television set, a year's free voice and piano lessons, a set of bathroom fixtures, contact lenses, an outboard motor, $500 worth of interior decorating...
Some teachers, like Samuel E. Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, never care particularly for cross-town work. His courses in Colonial and Naval History, among the top offerings in the Department, were denied to 'Cliffedwellers except during the period when Morison's daughter was an undergraduate there. Many courses, although offered to girls, were taught by substitutes or younger teachers...
Room-mates Don't Care...
...nests of parentheses" and its sentences that "dropped to the floor and bounced about like tiny rubber balls"; his way of coming into a room, carrying his silk hat, stick and gloves; his reputation as both a wit and a bore ("Nobody bored him," said Violet Hunt, "he took care of that. . ."); his reputation for incomprehensibility ("Poor old James," said George Meredith, "he sets down on paper these mysterious rumblings in his bowels -but who could be expected to understand them?"); his reputation for social snobbery, and his reputation for knowing women only by observation and fancy-such were...