Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of women to feel that if they were pregnant patients of mine they would be happy, but fat. Preferring not to be fat, they would not care to be patients of mine, and this, as you can well understand, is serious. Nowhere in your story could I find anything to ... explain, as was proved in my original article, that despite free-feeding, the average gain and the average retained weight after pregnancy is the same as the accepted standards...
...political
candy cane for politicians. Probably few but farm-country politicians
fully understood it, but no one would have any trouble recognizing its
effects:
...find some comfort in the fact," he continued in his characteristic high-pitched voice, "that we have a long-range bomber that can fly from any base in the world, attack targets in the range of 4,000 miles and return home." It was obvious that "workers live near factories and that if you bomb the factories, you may bomb the people . . . Any great injury you can inflict upon the morale of that nation," he added, "contributes to the victory . . . We are all aware of the awful penalty if we lose the war." As for morality-"war itself is immoral...
...machine gave him victories against the organizations set up to stop him. He carried all of his campaigns directly to the people; working sometimes 16 hours a day, he would shake hands with everyone on the street, be present at every gathering i nthe city where he might find votes, distribute money to needy families in person. He claimed marvelous accomplishments and promised even more wonderful ones--often figments of his imagination; in 1932, when he had been active in the national campaign, he pledged to the voters that he would get 30 or maybe 60 millions in Federal relief...
Today's is a battle between two teams neither of which has as yet fully realized its offensive potentialities. This afternoon they may find themselves in a situation which appears unprecedented in the 45-year span the series has covered. It is likely that the Stadium crowd (smallest of the season) will see a good deal of action as one of these teams finally gets rolling...