Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anyone Deny? Increased taxes, Douglas said emphatically, were not the answer; a tax boost now, when the nation was in a mild slump, might be just the kind of shock that would put the present economy flat on its back. "It is very foolish for us to act on the basis of conditions of five or six months ago," said Douglas...
...mechanical crib called "Night Nurse" was demonstrated in Manhattan by Dr. Sydney Norton Baruch, consulting engineer for the Air Force. Designed to help busy mothers, the motorized creche also will croon lullabies from a recording of the kind mother sings...
...grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...
...What kind of game will...
...millionaire once offered the University a large sum of money for a new building, provided only that it be in Turkish style. "It's the only kind of architecture," he explained, "you haven't got." He wasn't far from wrong. And if Lamont Library is one of the extremes of Harvard's mongrel collection, the Germanic Museum certainly qualifies for the other. The red-roofed building, adorned with Teutonic eagles and lions and a quotation from Schiller, sits on the corner of Kirkland Street and Divinity Avenue like a misplaced Valkyrie grown slightly stout...