Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After talking with German people in all positions of life, Loomis firmly feels that the conflict will be won by the side whose morale can hold up longer under nightly blackouts, increased taxes, and the other impositions of a hard fought battle...
...cram parlors will not immediately close their doors. Let there be no mistake about that. But their mask of holiness has been finally and effectively torn away from them. They can no longer make any pretenses to educational merit, for any tutoring of a reputable and legitimate nature can be done better and more cheaply by the University. They must openly admit that they exist for another and less honorable reason...
...convention among flying men, and this convention lingered afterwards. It had arisen at a time when the inferiority of our machines compared with those of the enemy was felt to justify an infusion of Dutch courage, but now that its underlying cause has been removed it exists no longer...
...completely relieved (several even gained weight, went back to work), seven told him their pain was greatly diminished. Only two had poor results. Other physicians, said Dr. Rutherford, are trying venom injections for relief of pain caused by chronic arthritis, heart disease, gangrene. Advantages over morphine: 1) venom lasts longer (morphine may wear off in three hours) ; 2) it is not habit-forming...
...Latin America dropped about 19%, but before the war was out they increased more than 100% over the prewar figures (a substantial increase although partially deceptive because of higher prices). This time the problem is being tackled at the beginning of the war, and the U. S. is no longer a greenhorn in Latin American trade...