Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plainest significance of the appointment was that Franklin Roosevelt had discarded the conventional specifications. The reasons he had done so were equally obvious : Mr. Roosevelt believes that Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and other British labor leaders will grow increasingly powerful during the war, be still more powerful after it. Ambassador Winant knows the leaders of British labor from his days in Geneva, has their confidence as no career diplomat or wealthy businessman like Joseph Kennedy could hope to gain it. The desperate urgency of Britain's plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire...
...future years the deficit may grow larger, especially with the decrease in Student fees anticipated in Dean Chase's report. It seems to the Student Council Committee, that instead of cutting down expenses by reducing the pay of the faculty or by cutting down the number of teachers, or by reducing the present assistance to students, the budget problem could better be met by N.Y.A. funds...
...must set Europe's quarrels aright every few decades and finance their war preparations, it would seem that we should have the rule of those countries so that such gangsters as arise may speedily be put out of circulation before they have had sufficient opportunity to grow dangerous to world peace...
...heart a moderate, General Hertzog found himself in uneasy company. The extreme nationalists had gone in for religious racism. They had celebrated the centenary of the Great Trek hysterically for a whole year, touring the backveld from town to town in ox wagons. Anyone who didn't grow a voortreker (pioneer) beard was an "outlander" or a traitor. A synagogue was dynamited, and George VI's message to the final jamboree was read in Afrikaans. A hangover from this emotional bender was the growth of the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Fireguard), an Afrikaans cultural organization specializing in swastika...
...loan] agreements. . . . The republic is a seller nation. . . . The United States can see this fact and draw its own conclusions. It is well to remember that small friendly credits can remedy small passing situations; the purchasing power of our country naturally remains the same. This will only grow larger when its meats and grains . . . find in the United States the markets which they should have but which are closed to them...