Word: findings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy demand by seniors is expected to be repeated in the lower classes. This will mean in all likelihood that juniors and sophomores will share sections 35 and 36 with the overflow being out in sections 28 and 29 at the other end of the field. Freshmen will probably find their seats in the colonade...
...would like nothing better than to [find] on the New York Stock Exchange [securities] of waterworks in South America, electric light and power companies in the Middle East. [But] how can we expect [others] to amend their [restrictive] laws toward American capital, knowing that investment and investors at home are discriminated against and discouraged...
...Trollope came prepared to appraise and evaluate the Union: it never occurred to her that from the moment she landed (at New Orleans) she herself would be the one to be roundly devaluated. To begin with, it was a "singular" shock to find that though every man jack of her American fellow travelers on the Mississippi chewed tobacco, reeked of whisky, ate with a knife and grabbed for the table "viands" with "voracious rapidity," one & all had apparently "arrived at high rank in the army...
Relative Chastity. Guy's doting mother could find no fault with her good-looking son. In her old age she was to recall proudly that "His childhood was absolutely chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...
Robert Lowry's first book, Casualty, published in 1946, was a story of stagnation in a U.S. Army camp in Italy, of sullen enlisted men, buck-passing officers, drunkenness, boredom, brief and fatal outbreaks of violence. His second, Find Me in Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something...