Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More than 15,000 of you who took to the field will never again see your homes and many have lost forever their ability to work. But you have also dealt hard blows, and if 200,000 of our enemies now lie on the snow drifts, gazing with broken eyes at our sky, the fault is not yours. You did not hate them or wish them evil ; you merely followed the stern rule of war: kill or be killed...
...comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave in to its distinguished pest. Result: Michigan went up from 22nd to eighth place among the States, became "the biggest State east of the Mississippi River...
...heroes' time) sparrows are thick in the trees. On this street is one of the world's largest libraries (5,000,000 volumes), one of 511 in Leningrad. It passes October Station, from which Bolsheviks used to leave for Siberia, and ends near the cemetery where lie the bones of Moussorgsky, Dostoevsky, Tschaikowsky and many another famed Russian artist...
Correction of bad posture, according to Ober, will do much to relieve a common backache, and proper attention to other diseases may even prevent a pain in the back. Chronic cases, however, must be treated with rest in bed; the patient is told to lie in a comfortable position and to avoid motions which would increase his pain...
...history laughs ... as each time the dynamic forces of a free Republic led by free men have given the lie to the defeatists . . . sweeping the nation's increased population to full employment and ever higher living standards.") They came from Beaverhead County, which has 6,706 people, 32 mines, 31,410 head of cattle, and is larger than Connecticut. They came from Granite County, from Madison County which have silver, lead, sheep, water power, and where 9,300 inhabitants including Indians are all cramped up in space half as big as Belgium. ("I wish the long-haired theorists...