Word: live
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120 if he were an athletic director...
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Partly Moral, Partly Selfish. The Marquot workers live in pleasant cottages for which they pay the company a nominal rent, work in spotlessly clean factory buildings. There are hot and cold showers (available to wives & children on Saturday), a hospital, a library. Gustave Marquot, who inherited the 90-year-old family business last year, is a fairly typical member of Le Centre des Jeunes Patrons (Center of Young Employers), which is trying to build a brighter future for free enterprise in France. The Young Employers are against the predatory capitalism of the past, but they also want to keep France...
...human side, the U.S. deal with Newfoundland looked every bit as sound. In 1940 President Roosevelt, announcing the 99-year lease of the bases from England, had called them "gifts, generously given and gratefully received." Since then, both sides seemed to live up to the spirit of the exchange. Some 900 U.S. servicemen married Newfoundland girls. Yank troops visited Newfoundlanders' homes; islanders were invited to the Americans' parties and theaters. To all appearances, the hospitable Newfies and the free-spending Yanks had worked out a near-perfect landlord & tenant arrangement with never a thought of breaking the lease...
...writes, that the idea first took root that psychoanalysis and religion could somehow lie down together and live happily ever after. "In America all races and creeds live and work peacefully side by side-why should not ideas do likewise? . . . It is . . .in such a benign climate of opinion that the current love affair between psychoanalysis and religion has been, time & again, consummated. There have been bickerings . . . and the Catholic Church has shown itself to be a rather frigid partner. But, all in all, things have gone well, and the occasional Catholic reserve has been more than made...