Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems which the Constitutional Committee has been boggling on found the ballot-writers taking fairly definite sides. House representation won a decisive 85 per cent majority over the present Class system, and the completely elective ideal won a somewhat less decisive majority over any combination of appointive and elective systems. Again, with such evidence before them, it is difficult to see how the Committee can justify much extension of debate on these two issues...
...Wilson Wyatt's National Housing Administration now decided that this 83-acre plant would be ideal for the manufacture of prefabricated houses, which were doing badly. (Production of 3,500 a month is only one-sixth of estimates.) Tucker Corp., said NHA, would have to move out so the plant could be turned over to Lustron Corp., an offshoot of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Corp...
Smuts's country had failed dismally to advance toward that brave ideal. Egged on by his opposition, the even more reactionary Nationalist Party, Smuts was going deeper & deeper into the racist morass of "white supremacy." Just before leaving for the current round of international conferences, he announced a great campaign to bring to South Africa "thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions of immigrants." That they would be white went without saying...
...paper-shy English press, have only recently been allowed to print more than a slim four pages: "These terrific, fat New York papers make me envious, and I can't see us turning them out for some time yet. ... I think a 16-page paper would be ideal-enough of everything and not too much of anything...
Frank & Nancy Sinatra dropped off Hollywood's Ideal Couple List with a thud. After a hot argument, Frankie walked out with a first-degree burn on. Clucked Sinatra's pressagent: "It was a case of Hollywood career plus a family tiff. I hope they will make up. . . ." But that night, Frankie went to Sonja Henie's party, danced with Lana Turner. Burbled Lolly Parsons: "[Lana has] known Frank for a long time, but. . . says: 'I am not in love with Frank and he is not in love with me. I have never in my life broken...