Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defied a notice from her landlord to vacate a six-room house. Landlord David C. Lang then removed the roof. But the First Presbyterian Church Men's Club started building Mrs. Lewis a new roof. Despite a risk of prosecution for trespassing, the Men's Club remained firm in its "belief that all people should have roofs over their heads...
...have them monogrammed "E.E." Knowledgeable gossips immediately concluded that the Royal Family had decided on Edinburgh as a suitable dukedom for their son-in-law. More excitable gossips were aghast at a story that Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., had ordered from a Hollywood firm six pairs of Nylon stockings with clocks of seed pearls as his present to the Princess. In Washington the pained British Embassy promptly scotched that story...
...those placid novels that wallow in family trivia, delight in minor, certain-to-be-resolved family crises and snicker at family eccentrics. The family is accorded an existence of its own, dominating and dwarfing the individual characters; it becomes a sort of metaphysical entity, unexplored and uncriticized, that remains firm and true, regardless of the peccadilloes of its members. The reader is therefore seldom aroused about the fate of any individual Moorhouse. For even if erratic David were to choose the wrong bride (though he does not) or if moody Phoebe were to persist in her cold antagonism towards...
Plan of Battle. Most Wall Streeters thought that the suit was designed chiefly to make competitive bidding compulsory. It is now optional for industrial security issues. Unnamed in the suit was the second largest (next to Morgan Stanley) investment banking firm in the U.S.-Halsey, Stuart & Co., of Chicago, which has long advocated such competition. The only financier to applaud the suit was another champion of the same cause, Cyrus Eaton, of Cleveland's Otis...
...Student Activities Center, according to an estimate provided the War Memorial Committee by the Boston architects firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullduch, and Abbott, will cost in the neighborhood of $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 inclusive of an endowment for operational expenses. Harvard Clubs and Class organizations of the Alumni Association must induce any-money solicitations for the support of a Student Activities Center