Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Firm Foundation. In Sweet Springs, Mo., Harvey House and Herb Lotz set up a real-estate firm, called it House & Lotz...
...desperation: "I have a ten-year-old son who (collects) military insignia. . . . For the past six months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm, tug on the sleeve and an insinuating voice saying, 'That's a nice patch you're wearing; have you a spare you don't need?' And so it goes. . . . Would appreciate anything you gentlemen . . . can furnish Bobby and me." We furnished Bobby and his father...
Dally Double. The President had another item of note for Democrats: he and Mrs. Truman were going home to Independence to vote in the primary.* Democrat Truman had no other firm political plans. But, if it was necessary to help the Party, he would also take the stump in the campaign this fall...
...commend you for taking a firm stand against the flagrant price raising practices currently in vogue. That you have the courage to assert your opposition publicly and boldly is heartening to us who depend on you to defend student interest...
...Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer to reject a few cliches: metaphors involving roots and tides appear regularly at big moments. All the big moments that could be expected are supplied...