Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, he made the clearest statement to date of his domestic program. Frankly, he "bought" most of the New Deal social gains. But he made a careful line of separation: "We must create an economic climate in which business, industry and agriculture can grow and flourish. . . . Studied hostility toward our job-producing machinery must cease...
...fact that American troops were on German soil, nor the fact that they had pierced the Siegfried Line, which gave the strongest evidence that the war in Europe was rapidly drawing to a close. The clearest sign was evidence of disorganization in the Wehrmacht...
...Discussion. Thus the U.S. last week was, in a strictly literal sense, up in the air. The clearest thing in the air was what would not come up at the overdue conference. At the head of the not-for-discussion list are the two piping-hot but purely domestic issues: 1) whether the U.S. should have one big "chosen instrument" or a few competing foreign airlines (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.); 2) whether railroads, ship companies and bus lines should be allowed to fly. On the positive side, U.S. diplomats were fresh out of ideas...
...days over the structure of the Chinese language, got it down to ele ments that could be written on a small sheet of paper. Next Hockett listened to two Chinese civilian assistants, Fang and Chew Hong, talk Chinese for three and a half weeks. The simplest and clearest remarks were cut on wax. Then Hockett, Fang, Hong and the officers sailed for China with lesson books, a few records, some hand-wind phonographs...
...average man" is really two men: English-speaking "Jack" and French-speaking "Jacques." Last week a summary of all Canadian Gallup Polls taken up to Aug. 16, 1943 (since Dec. 2, 1941) compared Jack's thinking on major issues to Jacques'.* Result was probably the clearest short delineation of Canada's dual character yet published. Sample comparisons...