Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Washington the fourth Lend-Lease agreement with Russia was in process of fulfillment. Nearly all goods shipped to date were of the immediately expendable type (planes, trucks, food). But the emphasis was shifting. Unofficial reports said present negotiations stressed goods that may outlast the war (railroad equipment, machinery, etc...
"This reborn church . . . would pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church. A life, not a creed, would be the test. ... It would be the church of all the people . . . the church of the rich and the poor, the wise and the...
Harvard undergraduates exhibited a trend away from wartime's emphasis on the natural sciences as they filed plans of concentration at University Hall Friday. Figures released by Dean Hanford's office reveal a rebirth of interest in the liberal arts, with English and allied subjects leading the field.
Then it came Senator Brewster's turn: "Is it correct that the chief emphasis on rewarding you with this job is for your political activities?"
By the use of captured Japanese film, moreover, this little picture gives unusually telling emphasis to the fact that it takes two to make a quarrel. (The Japanese film, incidentally, shows the strong ultraromantic influence of Nazi documentaries, which try by melodramatic low-angling and gauze-and-halo effects to...