Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reduction of more U.S. tariffs. Though the general tariff level is down to the 1914 mark, the British insist that some of their best items for export cannot compete in the American market because of high discriminatory duties. For example, duties on woolen and worsted cloths can amount to 40 to 45%, clocks up to 150%, china tableware 35%, chamberpots ("sanitary earthenware if of vitreous china...
...plan to raise Manchuria's heavy industrial production. Output now is about 10% of the Japanese mark in 1944. The Communists hope to reach 40% by 1950's end. Proclaimed Kao Kang: "To fulfill this historical task, it is necessary to study seriously ... the Soviet technique in economic construction and methods of government...
This was not a mark of disrespect; they did not recognize him. Louis St. Laurent possesses to a marked degree the 19th Century attributes of probity, confidence and dignity?which seem to be taking on a new luster as the undignified 20th Century reaches its halfway point. He does not court public adulation. Besides, Canadians had given him the salute that counts in last June's general election: the widest mandate ever handed to a national leader (TIME, July 4). When the Canadian Parliament opens next week, St. Laurent's Liberal Party will hold a record total...
...found time for his family in the yellow brick house on the Grande Allée. There he was Père de famille (father of the family), and he filled the role in the best French Canadian manner. His children used the formal vous as an old-fashioned mark of respect for their parents...
...sent to Salem Village for preliminary examinations faced a difficult problem: what constituted evidence of witchcraft? The Bible mentioned it in the same breath with sodomy and idolatry, but neglected to define it. After due deliberation the magistrates declared that a devil's "teat" or "devil's mark" on the body of the accused was proof of guilt, that mischief following anger between neighbors was ground for suspicion, and, most important of all, that "the devil could not assume the shape of an innocent person." This last meant that hallucinations would be accepted not as evidence...