Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Might I remind the General that the Hearst chain, regardless of its merits, is the product of free competition. . . . On the other hand, the military paper Stars and Stripes is strictly a monopoly in its field and therefore it must serve the purpose, if it is to further democratic ideals, of all the competitors it would have under free competition...
...many scientists, though interested in atomic power, are more interested in the radioactive materials from the Oak Ridge chain-reacting pile. These promise a scientific revolution...
World War I almost severed the chain again when the undergraduate editors, on October 4, 1918, formally announced their intention to close up shop for the duration. But the momentum of the presses had hardly petered out when a group of graduate editors, on October 24, seized the reins and boosted a weekly Crimson over the two-month hump until-returning editors could take over once more...
...most of Spiegel's new hormones were self-generated in a razzle-dazzle retail expansion program. Last week Spiegel topped it off by buying ]. & R. Motor Supply Co., operator of a Midwest chain of 55 stores selling auto parts, radios, work clothes, general hardware. Reported price: about $2 million...
...comma by Lessing"-Franz had progressed so far into the abstract that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant appeared to him to be "escape literature." Suicide was the only logical next step. With the aid of a world-weary student of Sanskrit, young Schoenberner plotted a chain of thought of such intellectual intensity that it "would . . . dissolve even the body ... by pure force of thinking." When his body remained undissolved, Schoenberner decided to surrender to the "irrational force" of staying alive...