Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with prayer. In her Washington, D.C. office she reads to her fellow workers from The Optimist's Good Morning, a devotional hand-me-down from the late John D. Rockefeller. One of her favorite passages begins: "With this new day, O God, let some new strength be mine." The staff of the National Council of Negro Women says a fervent amen. Though she was 71 last week, Mary Bethune still runs them ragged...
General Campbell quoted from a telephone conversation with Andy May: "Those fellows are good friends of mine and have been very kindly to me in the past about some things and I want to help them if I could." (When General Campbell said he had, as usual, made a recorded transcript of the talk, other worried Congressmen lost sight of the investigation completely, began a furious hue-& -cry about "wire-tapping...
Ever since John P. Marquand discovered that there was a gold mine on Beacon Hill, books on Boston and Harvard have been hitting the stands with monotonous regularity. Last year's pseudo-Marquand, "Boston Adventure," was a very poor piece of goods, as most imitations are. But the latest effort, Helen Howe's "We Happy Few," is several cuts above its predecessors. Showing a speaking acquaintance with the Beacon Street-Brattle Street axis, Miss Howe's special target is the Cambridge cocktail crowd, the effete, hyper-esthetical group which knows all there is to know about Sex, Marxism...
...cases with women. . . . My opinion is, that you had better not do it. You have not been accustomed to hardship, and it may be more severe than you now immagine. . . . If . . . further acquaintance would contribute nothing to your happiness, I am sure it would not to mine...
...with the Soviet regime-amounting to a personal declaration of war against that and all police-states-was not accidental. It was implicit in all I had been and thought and experienced. . . . To explain it I must rehearse my whole life and the life of Russia as it touched mine...