Word: cater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a program will probably be more practicable for Belgium than for most of Europe. Since the day the Nazis immured him in Laeken Castle, 42-year-old King Leopold has kept his title but has refused to govern. Belgian courts have stubbornly refused to cater to the Nazis, and have kept the prewar judicial system pretty well intact (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943). Nazi exploitation and expropriation have presumably played havoc with Belgium's interior economy, left the true ownership of many properties in doubt. But even this factor-a specter of disintegration which overhangs all Europe...
...four occidental fellow-officers dropped ashore to bunk at Henry Meyer's middling Palmerston Hotel. Chow Jockie went to his room, began to unpack. Ten minutes later came a message: the guest must return his key. The Palmerston didn't cater to colored people...
...lounge, on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House, is intended to provide the student with a comfortable place to spend leisure time. Bridge, ping-pong, and billiards are among the recreational facilities. A grand piano and a radio-phonograph, with a record library, cater to the students' musical tastes, while numerous magazines and newspapers will be provided in a smaller room off the main lounge...
...Some 600 cinema theaters, worth ?24,000,000. This is less than 15% of the British total, but since they include Gaumont-British's 275, and Odeon's 300 cinemas and supercinemas, they cater to almost one-third of Britain's 23,000,000 weekly cinemaddicts...
Moral for Americans. Careful Carl Crow draws only one moral from his collection of early Americana: that the U.S. grew great precisely because it "had no carriage trade," and had to cater to the needs of its ubiquitous poor. But implicit in almost all his tales of Yankee ingenuity and invention-for-the-masses is another moral even more pertinent to U.S. industry. The U.S. got its head start in mass production precisely because the old countries thought they could maintain their monopoly of all the known skills of the 18th and 19th Centuries. In so doing they forced their...