Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John P. Marquand, now leading the bestseller list himself, took a hard look at one of 1920's bestsellers and shrugged his shoulders: "What made [F. Scott Fitzgerald's] This Side of Paradise an immediate [hit] was no doubt its ... expose of the immoralities of the younger generation...
Greek soldiers of the pre-Christian era had their own type of concentrated K-rations, even as the G.I.s of World War II.
By last week, both the White House and the Department of Justice were becoming uncomfortably aware of Jailbird Gara and his conscience. Some 400 clergymen and laymen had signed petitions on his behalf. Pickets turned up at the White House. Quakers and pacifist-minded churchmen throughout the country were drawing...
In the 19308, half the new houses constructed were custom-built, and the new owner consequently had a 50-50 chance to express his own ideas about the practical art of housing himself and his family. Today, such speculative merchant-builders as the David D. Bohannon Organization, which is putting...
Merchant-builders increasingly favor the modern touches-at least on the inside where they won't glaringly show. But the man who wants a house to fit his family as well as the age he lives in still has good reason for building his own.