Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fate of the much-discussed "pillbox" kiosk in Harvard Square will be decided at a meeting between Cambridge police and Boston El officials next Tuesday, according to word received yesterday from the transit department at Police headquarters...
...Checks & Balances. The fate of Rome haunts a modern world that has been unable to solve its own social problems, either domestic or international, and Durant makes the most of hundreds of parallels. Rome, like the U.S.A., discovered the secret of check-&-balance republican government, yet forgot its secret when the clamor of pressure groups broke down the old tradition of limited terms of office. A Cincinnatus, called from his plow to save the State, returned to his farm as soon as the crisis was over. But when Sulla and Julius Caesar violated the precedent, the Republic sank back into...
...during the negotiations for the surrender of Singapore were: 'All I want to hear from you is "yes or no." ' I expect to put the same question to Mac-Arthur." The Philippines, said baseball-conscious Tokyo Radio, marked the final battle of the world series, with "the fate of the whole world" hanging on the outcome...
Last week Maastricht's citizens, wondering about the fate of their ants in bombed Berlin, were not very hopeful of ever getting the great collection back. As for Father Schmitz, when last heard from he was in the Tyrol collecting phorid flies, had already collected 1,000 species...
...young lady to the other end. "This is Woodrow Wilson speaking," he would enunciate icily. "Can't you walk over?" Then he would emerge from his study slightly ashamed, muttering: "I fancy I've lost you a beau." Sometimes he added: "I can imagine no worse fate for a girl than to marry a man of coarser fibre than...