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...Impetus for yesterday's Town-Gown at- tack on the problem was furnished by the passage by the state legislature of a veterans housing bill giving cities and towns the right to acquire "tracts of land which are entirely, or almost, unoccupied by buildings," by right of eminent domain, to be used for housing "of a temporary nature," for a period not to exceed five years...
...eventual aggression from nations claiming to be fearful for their own safety. . . . If, however, we give the "secret" to an international control commission, we i) show the Russians (against whom, after all, this secrecy is being directed) that we are ready to trust them, i) give a strong impetus for success of the United Nations Organization, 3) furnish a strong moral persuader to other nations to follow our example in cosmopolitan behavior, and 4) lose nothing which we won't lose shortly in any event, if we haven't already done...
Pundit Lippmann overlooked the impetus of one episode on Roosevelt's life, because few talked aloud about the crippling paralysis that came in 1921 and Roosevelt's courageous comeback...
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...