Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, who last year outlawed strikes and lockouts for the war's duration, gave no hint of possible action. He had for some time been under fire for failure to deal more strongly with labor upsets. But when 60,000 vitally important producers earning $14.50-$19 a week (better pay in Britain than it is in the U.S.) felt strongly enough to strike against King and Union, the wisest answer was not necessarily "strong" dealing...
Getting Used to It. Men can adjust themselves to Antarctic living, but their bodies acquire a new balance, reported Physiologist Ernest E. Lockhart. The repeated stimulus of low temperatures makes blood pressure increase by 25 to 35% and makes the rates of respiration and heart-beat decrease somewhat. Basal metabolism is about 10 to 15% lower than in temperate climates. These reactions were unexpected, for they do not occur among Eskimos...
Suddenly a submachine gun chattered. Leslie Ernest Ludford, a crippled lawyer who had paused to buy an Armistice Day poppy, crumpled to the sidewalk moaning. A dark sedan roared away. Later the sedan halted outside the home of two elderly women, Mrs. Annie New and Mrs. Emily Crisp. The doorbell rang...
Soon after 9 a.m. six Army planes hedgehopped over the city, blew dead leaves from the trees in yellow showers, strafed the airport. An indignant housewife called police headquarters, complained that a plane had almost hit her chimney. Replied Police Chief Ernest...
...varying entries in Who's Who between 1928 and 1939. Sample Buchman claim he riddled: "studied at Cambridge University 1921-22." That debate was a Waterloo for Buchmanism. Its 172 followers in Parliament (the fruit of two years' intensive lobbying) were all set to protest Labor Minister Ernest Bevin's refusal to exempt the Group's lay evangelists from military service. When Herbert and Bevin got through, not one of the 172 cared to reply...