Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national life and the basis of our political and economic independence," said the 72-year-old former professor of electrochemistry who has been Poland's President for the last 13 years. "Through this narrow gate, through a small strip of seacoast, is done three-quarters of our business with foreign nations. This is our free unhindered way to all the other countries in the world and the more they are menaced the stronger is our determination to defend Pomorze and the seacoast...
...telling an obscene limerick is not just a man trying to amuse his friends. Such is the conclusion of Dr. Raoul Weston LaBarre of Uniontown, Pa., social anthropologist who has studied the customs of Bolivian Indians, done psychiatric research at the Topeka clinic of Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (The Human Mind, Man Against Himself). Young Dr. LaBarre, observing gatherings of limerick-telling U. S. males, and analyzing the content of the limericks, decided that he was in the presence of otherwise normal people unconsciously betraying their repressions and inhibitions. These categories of limericks indicated to him these inhibitions and repressions...
...perhaps 30 ... miles from here." The Times had even called him up. "Dieter answered the telephone," reported the Times, "and revealed without hesitation that he is Edward M. Dieter, 70, pharmacist and postmaster of Naperville. . . . That's all there was to it, Tribune. Anybody could have done...
...people's vanity and emotions. It concedes that "it is impossible to carry on our economic life today without advertising," but adds: "we must ask ourselves if all the advertising today is wise and necessary." Among other things it credits Mr. Falk's organization with having done much to eliminate unfair advertising practices. Mr. Falk retorts: "We regret that his discussion of [our work] is much too brief. compared with the opposing text, and that it does not change much the previously built-up picture of advertising as a pretty rotten sort of institution...
Tickled pink with his four juniors is Superintendent Wilson. To an aviation tycoon who tried to lure students away with lucrative jobs, Superintendent Wilson boasted: "It can't be done...