Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant nondenominational China Inland Mission accepted her for a three-year training course, though, at 26, she was a year over the age limit. But her education was not good enough, and she flunked out miserably in the first term of the course. Determined to serve in China, she went back to London and took on two maids' jobs at once. She wanted to earn enough money to go to China on her own and work with Mrs. Jeannie Lawson, an old China missionary who had grown tired of retirement and, at 74, had returned to China...
...with the lights of his jeep." He was held for two hours in an ice-cold waiting room where he did push-ups to keep warm while Paddock argued for his release. Said Paddock: "The fact that it was not quite dark and that the jeep was pointed inland would seem sufficient to disprove the charge...
Even before the strike, overall steel profits had begun to slip. Though U.S. Steel's third-quarter profits were up 13% from a year ago and Bethlehem's up 1.9%, Allegheny Ludlum was in the red, Republic and Inland's nets were off 23%, Jones & Laughlin's 44%, and ten other companies showed corresponding decreases. Nearly all the oil companies were down and many another industry showed a turndown when compared with 1948's third quarter, an alltime record...
...barren Antarctic as his leading actor. His cameras record, by the thoughtful, subdued use of Technicolor, snow and ice in an amazing variety of hues, from green to an ominous grey. As the party moves painfully from the coastal ice wall to the great glacier, and then to the inland plateau, every change in terrain and sky is effectively caught...
...Allies' communique. He passed lightly over the 23.8? decision with the remark that it did not do justice to the "rightful interests of the German economy." He also passed over the anti-dumping clause and the freezing of the price of export coal. But when he came to inland coal, he was sure and stern: ". . . The price of coal would have to be increased 25% ... We will under no circumstances adopt this measure. I say this explicitly in the name of the federal government, so that any unrest in the German people will be stopped at once...