Word: inherit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struggle between a communist and a liberal or unreactionary conservative, as you prefer, for the possession ultimately of the world, intermediately of America, and immediately of a woman. A trifling playboy enters into the picture, too, but he is not an antagonist. It is not thought that he may inherit the earth some day. The best that can be said for him is said by the liberal: the latter is willing to gave even him, for his chivalry and his generosity, rather than see the communist triumph...
Dorothy Thompson's unique invitation was typical of N. A. M.'s painfully self-conscious course in self-improvement, undertaken in its efforts to school itself for political maturity and the national leadership which it felt its members must rightly and inevitably inherit. Lengthening their convention from the usual two days to include a third called "Labor Day," the manufacturers turned many an unfamiliar stone in their search for enlightenment. They will listen to Leo Wolman on the labor outlook; General Hugh Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus...
Born, To Marigold Rosemary Joyce, Countess of Londesborough, 34, and the late Hugo William Cecil Deniscm, Earl of Londesborough who died last April of pneumonia; a daughter; in London. The posthumous child will inherit the Earl's $5,000,000 but not his title, which became extinct for lack of male issue...
...young woman with extraordinary ears -definitely cup-shaped instead of reasonably flat-recently presented herself for examination at Chicago's Lying-in Hospital. She wanted to know whether, if she married, her children would inherit ears like hers. She had three brothers and one sister with similar cupped ears, three brothers and three sisters with normal ears. Speaking for all eleven she asked whether they were going to pass on the embarrassing abnormality to their children...
Whoever succeeds James McCauley Landis as chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission this fall will inherit not only old problems but a portfolio chock-full of new and zestful business. Milestones in the Commission's career last week were: 1) the first arrest brought about by SEC lawyers, and 2) the first application for reorganization filed with SEC under the Public Utility Holding Company...