Word: lien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newport's waterworks slapped a lien on the two-million-dollar villa purchased last year by her mother for Torch Singer Gertrude Niesen, demanding $792 for excess water "used" at the villa between January and June. The pipes in the mansion had burst in February and poured out more than a million gallons. The waterworks also asked an $83 advance for the coming year...
...from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien, a Nanking shopkeeper, Ling Tan learned that where these eggs fell in the city, all was reduced to dust; even people were taken apart "as though they, too, were made of clay." Soon Ling Tan went into the city and saw it with his own eyes, and when his youngest...
Harmonious, too, were the denials of U.S., Brazilian and Portuguese officials that as a birthday present Portugal had given Brazil a first lien on the Azores, the Cape Verde and possibly other Portuguese islands in the Atlantic. A score of years ago there was actually a popular movement in Portugal to join Brazil, her onetime colony which has far outgrown her. To many statesmen it now seems at least as logical that Brazil should protect Portugal's possessions as that the U.S. should protect Britain's. And if Brazil is not strong enough to do so alone, then...
...twist. A few Administration corners buzzed with it. Provoked by 1 ) the problem of U.S. morale, and 2) the perplexing question of what will happen to the economy when defense spending ends, the New Dealers thought about killing both birds with one stone by giving U.S. youth a Keynesian lien on the Peace...
Divinity School Scholarships were given to Maurice W. Armstrong; Oliver S. Beltz; Richard Cummings, John R. Dallinger; John Daugman; Howard F. Dunn; Ward J. Fellows; John H. Gerstner; William H. Gysan; Gleen P. Holman; Robert LaV. Jacobs; Carl K. Lien; John A. Martin; Edwin A. Olson; Howard E. Runner; Clarence A. Wagner; and Clement W. Welsh...