Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With an expected 90,000,000 parcels due to pass through A.P.O. New York alone during the 30 day period, authorities have made special provisions for the handling of the traffic, but the public must cooperate by adhering to the packaging regulations...
...report on the provisions and subsequent restrictions due to the passage of Title V of the Soldier Vote Act (TIME, July 10) came as a shock to many servicemen...
...absence. . . . The abdominal distention was often associated with a small umbilical hernia . . . watery diarrhea and a tendency to pass food unaltered. It was difficult to persuade many of these cases to eat. . . . Many complained of cough and produced a white frothy sputum which I took to be due to edema of the lungs. . . . The heart was sometimes moderately enlarged and the heart sounds diminished in volume. . . . A more or less severe secondary anemia was invariably present. . . . Amenorrhea and sterility were extremely common...
...Twin Cities diagnosis : the failure of business activity to expand is generally due to inability of individuals to accumulate capital, because of the large amount of their income that is taken away from them after receipt. The Ruml diagnosis (more generally accepted): the failure is due not to absence of capital, but to the fact that a heavy tax burden not only reduces earnings but cuts consumption by adding to the cost of products...
...readers of Joyce. It is also likely to stir up plenty of controversy. James Joyce's theme and dreams are usually so elaborately interwoven that even the most prominent incidents and characters invite multiple interpretations. "Indeed," conclude the authors, "the baffling obscurity of Finnegans Wake may be due to [Joyce's] determination to muddy the track of his narrative with a thousand collateral imprints, lest we trace him to the scene of his own life secret, which he yet describes in compulsive half-revelation." Campbell and Robinson offer no key to Joyce's life...