Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...account of the time lag between retailers' buying and selling periods. If ceilings are placed at both the wholesale and the retail level as of the same date, retailers see gross unfairness to all of their members, bankruptcy for some of the weaker ones who buy hand to mouth-i.e., late and high...
This tale of a neglected wife who poses as a seductive twin sister to win back her husband was called "a threat to the institution of marriage" by church and moral groups, who made M.G.M. take it back and wash its mouth out. Its entire effect was vitiated merely by inserting near the beginning a telephone scene wherein Melvyn Douglas discovers that the flame he is playing with is really his wife. From then on his adulterous activities become husbandly jesting acceptable to the thinnest- lipped moralist. The trouble with the picture now is that it not only fails...
...think it's going to be a hand-to-mouth arrangement," said Ben Olken, proprietor of the shop...
First the Japanese sent paratroops. They hoped to seize Palembang's oil before Dutch demolitionists could lay everything waste, as they had at Tarakan and Balikpapan. The paratroops died by hundreds, failed in their mission. Seaborne invaders followed. They landed at the mouth of the Musi River, swarmed overland through swamps and marshes. Outnumbered, outgunned, Dutch and native defenders killed hundreds, but the thousands overwhelmed them...
Despite the prevalent opinion in military and academic circles that a Long War will require an endless number of men with technical training, the preparation of the endless number continues to operate on a hand-to-mouth basis. Army and Navy courses for scientists and linguists have been filled, but usually with no qualified applicants to spare. Doubling the Army within a year will call for many repetitions of the Government courses at M. I. T. and Cruft, but only the most slip-shod arrangements have been made for supplying enough men to take them...