Word: fin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abiding by signed agreements and official promises. The occupation of the Baltic States was accomplished by diplomatic pressure. The military occupation of part of Poland, the Russian argument runs, took place after the Government of Poland with which Russia had a non-aggression pact had ceased to exist. Fin land was attacked on the somewhat flimsy grounds that the Finns allegedly fired first. Nevertheless, Russia's efforts to keep the peace of Europe were stronger than most. She tried to give the League vitality. She led the way in making bilateral pacts...
...manager of Texas Specialty Co., whose tiny plant backs up to Baird's. Elderly Wayne Baird's plant used to turn out small metal parts for oil-field machinery; elderly Anthony Engler's made toys. But in October 1940 they landed a joint $200,000 shell-fin contract which they executed with such success that last month they snagged a new one. This time it was for $1,000,000-about 40 times their combined annual volume in peacetime...
...Yeats began to hear professorial excitement over the vowel sounds ("I scarcely knew what a vowel was") in his Innisfree. He talked to Shaw and Kropotkin and William Morris at Kelmscott House; to Arthur Symons and Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson and Edmund Dulac-the "tragic generation" of the fin-de-siècle-at the Rhymers' Club; to John Todhunter and the intense young clerks of the Southwark Irish Society...
...never been late a day. "I've missed very little time off my job," he said. "In fact, the only time in my life that I can remember that I was ill for any length of time was during the last war. I missed a week because of fin." Merrill worked for the University from 1903 until 1919 and from 1931 until Sunday...
France Forever, Harvard Unit, will open its summer activities today with the presentation of one of the finest of present day French pictures, "La Fin Du Jour," in the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 4:15 and 8:15 o'clock...