Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view. . . ." He remarked: "Looking forward to eating wheat bread, cheese, ice cream, steaks again, but don't really miss them. . . . My health is as good or better than it ever was." He swore: "We never feel cooped up.'' Everything considered, said Halsema, Camp Holmes deserved the label: "The Orient's finest concentration camp." It sounded fine...
...Race prejudice ... a determination to keep a people down . . . misuses the label 'inferior' to justify unfairness and injustice. . . . One hundred thousand Americans have petitioned the War Department to have at least one division in the Army containing both Negroes and whites. . . . The United States should clean its own house . . . stand unashamed before the Nazis and condemn, without confusion, their doctrines of a Master Race...
...offering everything from ballet to burlesque. Business generally started out bravely in 1943, but crawled into bed toward the end because of the flu epidemic. Now it malingers because of people's concern for the second front. Nothing new and exciting this season bears a made-in-Britain label, but London has done pretty well for itself with goods from overseas and old finery out of trunks...
...early as 1939, Miss Abbott decided that the "made in Japan" label on the dolls she dressed was bad business. So she opened the first bisque doll pottery in the U.S., in Berkeley. This year she took over a bankrupt pottery in Stockton, Calif. But she had to take on a war order: a $500,000 contract for bisque cups, platters and dishes for Navy hospitals. The contract fitted in: bisque tableware turned out to have the same firing temperature, and besides the doll figure can be used-and is-in place of fire bricks to regulate furnace drafts...
...jumpy" was shown in 1896, the British cinema industry is in a position to command the commercial respect of Hollywood. There are two reasons: 1) Britain has been turning out enough four-bell films so that U.S. movie fans do not automatically look the other way when a British label turns up; 2) a tall, dark, retiring Briton named Joseph Arthur Rank. Tycoon Rank is 55, well preserved, and lives as simple a life as any man can with a 48,000-acre estate-Sutton Manor, in Hampshire-and another home in Surrey...