Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Predicting further that the movement toward unity of the Protestant churches will receive even more impetus after the war, he stated that this tendency is much stronger today than it was twenty years ago and that it will accomplish something concrete...
Over the Oder? Of such incidents, of such weight and urgency was the massive Red Army offensive last week. The Russians swept forward with an impetus which no losses, no barriers had been able to brake. By this week it seemed that its momentum could not be slowed short of the banks of the Oder (see below...
While Professor Marks points to the amazing impetus which war research has given to scientific progress and cites the "extensive possibilities" which could render further wars disastrous to humanity, he voices irritation at highly colored press representation of technological advance...
...Junior officer's beer bust Friday evening gave the weekend impetus right from the start. Few of us could locate and thank many of our hosts, but we all agree that we don't have enough pleasant gatherings like this. To the Junior officers we say thank you; may we meet together again...
There are many of us who would like to vote for another administration simply because this one has been in office too long and has lost its original impetus. Yet we are not yet willing to risk our Ship of State in the hands of men who are not wholeheartedly in favor of doing our full part toward international peace. ... I believe that Dewey would substantially strengthen his party and consequently his chances of becoming President if he let it be known that he would like to have Wendell Willkie as his Secretary of State...