Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long-faced, buck-toothed Kameo Sadaki, caretaker of the ruined debris of the Aichi torpedo plant, shook his head, said with Nagoya's curious local pride: "We had almost 25,000 workers here. In five minutes, nothing was left. No factory in Japan was so beautifully bombed." The Aichi plant, which was 95% destroyed, is being sold for scrap metal to anyone that will carry it away. Youngish Toshio Takahashi, the plant manager, says softly: "It still seems like a dream to see all this. I suppose we should tear it down quickly, but that would cost too much...
...started as a junior partner in a Quebec law firm at $50 a month and steadily built his earnings to nearly $50,000 a year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who asked St. Laurent to come to Ottawa to discuss "an urgent matter." Next day, St. Laurent was asked to join the cabinet as Minister of Justice...
...cabinet. On the day St. Laurent accepted the post, a new granddaughter was born in a Quebec hospital. Louis St. Laurent traveled over from Ottawa to see the baby, stood over her crib and mused aloud: "For myself, I may be making a mistake, but perhaps in the long run this child will benefit...
...succeeded, would jeopardize the religious and civil liberties which have been the glory of Protestant countries and of Protestant culture. The Protestant holds that every soul is accountable to God, that religion can only be real when each man espouses that which he himself believes, and that, in the long run, where there is spiritual independence, truth can be trusted to emerge. On the other hand, Roman Catholicism is not only a religion but a type of organized religion which, because of certain implacable assumptions, claims not merely equality of life and opportunity, but dominance . . . [It] claims...
...average general practitioner is not necessarily careless when, after a long day of rounds and "office hours, he dozes over the medical journals which are supposed to keep him up to date on his profession. Even the widely read (circ. 130,000) Journal of the American-Medical Association is printed in forbiddingly long columns and crammed with purposefully dull medical jargon, often in small type. Its illustrations are hard-to-read charts or muddy photographs...