Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sugar. Ugly rumors of a Harlem-trained fifth column have been given wide-eyed credence in some Washington quarters. But the problem of Jamaica is endemic throughout the chain of strategic U.S., British, French and Dutch islands guarding the approaches to the Panama Canal. In its more somber and involved...
"Many a mickle makes a muckle" says Harvey Anderson, when he is challenged on his belief that waste like this is the one big reason for the raw-materials crisis. He wants a new, over-all review of all Army & Navy specifications, with particular emphasis upon using more secondary, reprocessed...
The A.E.F. now in Britain could bear little resemblance in organization and distribution of fighting units to the A.E.F. that will jump off when the second front is launched. The big emphasis now had to be on troops that pave the way for a drive: Quartermaster, Engineer and Signal Corps...
The Navy's reorganization plan, designed to give new emphasis to airpower and airmen, and to modernize its creaking, cumbersome bureau system (TIME, May 25), was apparently scuttled last week.
1) "The extreme emphasis on pacifism that we find today is a modern growth in the Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of...