Word: hastener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among these millions, I hasten to offer my services, in any way in which my experience and my strength, to the last ounce, will be of help in the fight...
...citizens will draw $400.000,000 in Christmas Club money out of the banks and start spending it. Such buying pressure, exerted on a decreasing volume of consumer goods, will either 1) force prices upward to the point where "prosperity" will be a mirage, or 2) if prices are controlled, hasten the need for consumer rationing...
...productive capacity calls for the vision and leadership to translate these resources from production for war to production for peace. When that time comes it is my judgment that if we are intelligent and resourceful, new and vast horizons will open for us all. Our job now is to hasten that...
Head to Toe. Although any one of many body disturbances can hasten epilepsy, its essential cause is some damage to the grey matter of the brain, whether by tumor, abscess, infection, gunshot wound, shell splinters, or other accidents. Certain clusters of brain cells discharge electrical impulses to the muscles at an abnormal rate. This produces writhing and twitching. A tendency toward epilepsy runs in families; this may be due to some small quirk in the brain formation, together with an abnormal metabolism, faulty water balance, etc. Since electroencephalograms (charts of the electric waves discharged from the brain) can detect epileptic...
...Pope's mind was on peace. This week he issued a solemn call to prayer for peace during October. Said Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican: "May this solemn supplication asked by the Pope serve to hasten the prophetic day when all humanity . . . will find again . . . true prosperity of both individuals and nations...