Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canavan suggests a flat rate of $28.75, $12.55 less than the present Cambridge rate of $41.80. Other Massachusetts rates range from a high of $56.30 in Revere to a low of $16.20 in other communities...
Shortly after this, they decided to give up, they said. Lelandais' parents are arriving in New York from France this weekend, Davis' siste rand his Army game date are due in Cambridge today, and the quartet had less than $40 between them...
...welfare" has always been a nice sounding word suggestive of kindly old ladies with baskets on their arms--and "state" has remained more or less neutral. But as Humpty Dumpty scornfully said, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." And some Congressmen, and some weekly picture magazines, and some candidates for the Senate in the New York special election have been putting these two words together and packing into the result just what meanings they would choose it to mean...
...partner, Hitler, attacked Russia? No one in a position to speak freely knows, and until such questions are answered, all a biographer can do is to rework the public record. Biographer Deutscher, an ex-Communist who now writes for British weeklies, has done this with taste and scholarship. Though less exciting and brilliant than Trotsky's acrid biography of Stalin, Deutscher's book is more reliable and objective...
...suffering from a five-way squeeze play. He is under pressure from industry and from much of the public to compromise before a stoppage that may cripple the economy; but this is the least of his worries. He has to go before the national convention of the CIO in less than a month with a record that will re-elect him to its presidency--in the face of both the raucous agitating of such Communist-led unions as the United Electrical Workers and the growing political strength of Walter Renther, who gave himself a big boost by coaxing...