Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn of the last century, France had as anticlerical a Government as ever hated & feared the Pope. French lawmakers bundled up their prejudices in a Laic Law which, among other things, required State authorization for religious orders. When France went to war in 1914, thousands of members of secret, mufti-wearing orders emerged from their bolt-holes to serve la patrie. The number of aumôniers (chaplains) in the French forces was limited-400 in the army, 50 in the navy, none in the air force. Most priests were assigned to noncombatant duties. A few had anticlerical officers...
...last week 46 had been placed in U. S. graduate and professional schools, ten others had jobs. Nineteen, with permission from their parents and the U. S. State Department, kept their Rhodes scholarships, stayed on at Oxford. There they cut more lectures than ever, carried stretchers and sandbagged buildings, saw dons doff their black robes for titles such as "staff member of the Ministry of Economic Warfare." Two scholars, H. K. Smith and J. F. Golay, soon went up to London to take temporary jobs with the United Press...
Neither will I ever take...
...smoke-fogged suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...
Chevrolet's 1940 series (Master Eighty-Five, Master De Luxe, Special De Luxe) are longer (by 4⅜ in.), wider, lower, bigger than any Chevrolet ever built. Prices: unannounced. Alligator-jaw hood locks automatically, unlocks only from the dashboard...