Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of essential building materials has delayed construction of the companion research building, but the "brains" for the cyclotron now has a concrete roof over its head, and all the floors and partitions have been installed...
...more significant fiction than Gene Stratton Porter and articles more serious than the featherweight stuff they were getting." He even suggested to the board that McCall's sell Burton's stockpile of popular fiction to their bigger rivals, Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. He wanted to start from scratch with new, "realistic" writers. For such heresies he was fired at least six times during the first year (he quit nearly as often), was always rehired after a few days or weeks because, he says, "there was no one else around the place with ideas...
Everybody sees that Generalissimus Chiang Kai-Shek look not too as a Chinese. Mr. Svaricek, postman of Brtnice, whos was 1915-20 at Russia and Siberia . . . declared that Chiang Kai-Shek was born in Moravia country here. His war companion, Mr. Navratil, Businessman of Jaromĕřice and Roky-tna . . . was, they say, with present Chiang Kai-Shek going to school...
...student playgoer and his companion aren't particularly anxious to see a third-hand version of a second-rate Broadway production in which the favorite college wit unsuccessfully attempts an imitation of Monty Wooley or Victor Moore. Nor are they cheered to the point of unharnessing two dollars to listen to a short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success...
Conceived at the same time, and scheduled to follow the China program eventually is its companion piece--the study of Russia. Caught at the moment in a severe teaching shortage, this second program, McKay asserts, is receiving exactly the same thought and planning effort as Regional Studies...