Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...additional trade barriers and hindrances, as was the mood of 1917, we have definitely adopted the view that it is not in the interests of the world and of our two countries that any large nation should be unprosperous or shut out from the means of making a decent living for itself and its people by its industry and enterprise...
...have been living in the Amazon Valley for the past 40 years, and have known intimately quite a number of English and American people, all of them decent and very well-behaved, also esteemed by everybody...
...kept in service longer than a year?" Newspapers and magazines all over the country quote guardsmen as saying that they will gladly stay on. Where this statement comes from I cannot imagine unless it was from "Fireplace Soldiers" sitting in the comforts of their homes, or officers earning a decent living for the first time in their lives. . . . Believe me, the enlisted men of the National Guard do not want to stay more than a year unless, during that time, it is necessary to defend our shores from invaders...
...directly to draftees. Said the Secretary: "I am sorry that on the basis of incomplete evidence, I made a statement last week which carried a contrary implication." Wheeler, readying another blast against Stimson (on the extension of draftees' terms of service), replied: "I think it was a very decent thing for the Secretary to do." By that time the Senator had a second Cabinet apology-this one from Secretary of the Navy Knox. Wheeler's son, Richard, had applied for admission to an officers' training school. Rear Admiral George Pettengill, commandant of the Washington naval yard...
Artist Nichols, whose back-home colors and slickster drawing make him an annual hot favorite in the Christmas-card trade, cried: "When in Heaven's name may we who wish to see advertising take its just place among decent professions see these present low-minded sexologists replaced by high-minded psychologists? As one advertising artist once told me, the usual request is 'Make the breasts larger, the fanny bigger, and show more legs.' Other terms I would have to send by express or in code...