Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The pattern is clear enough: editors, like most other Americans, want to see Hitler beaten but they don't like to think about the hardships of going to war. Curiously, from late May to early July-when the President shifted emphasis from aid-to-Britain to hemisphere defense-the...
The Community Fund, called "one of the many destinations for Council money," is nevertheless an important one, it was stated, and greater emphasis is being placed on it in the individual door-to-door contacts. Lack of enthusiasm in the upper classes was scored, but Bunker pointed out that the...
For 37 years, as Boston's "People's Lawyer," Brandeis fought against this "tyranny of bigness." From 1907 to 1913 he opposed the New Haven monopoly of New England transportation; he perfected the plan for inexpensive unemployment and old-age insurance for workers. He struggled for higher wages, shorter hours...
The great bulk of the students who have been going to him are Seniors who will have to meet the military situation directly after they graduate next June. Theirs is a problem of making themselves flexible for opportunities which might (with the emphasis on the "might") be open at that...
The first emphasis has been upon the danger of bombing. It is true that there has been no bombing in Europe ever any distance even remotely comparable to the span of the Atlantic ocean. But it has been easy to picture bombers as flying over our cities--and exciting to...