Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present plan would also be on a small scale, Rogers has said. Screening tests would choose students for the program, and a strict eye would be kept on the standards of the work being done...
...Senate committee reacted by at last voting 10 to 1 to confirm Boyd (Millikin dissenting). But Lewis had more on his mind than Boyd. A two weeks' work stoppage would drastically reduce the present big 70 million-ton, soft-coal stockpile-a 45 days' supply. With a lot less coal on hand, operators would be more amenable when Lewis presented them with his new contract demands. His present contract expires June...
...Stalin's right hand as he entered the hall was V. M. Molotov, who a week before had been "released" as Minister of Foreign Affairs. With Stalin, too, was A. I. Mikoyan who had been released as Minister of Foreign Trade. The three together were cheered. Also present, in a government box off to the side, was the new Foreign Minister, Andrei Vishinsky...
...Inglish. WE PREFER IT AS IT IS." But the Evening Standard felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...
...philanthropic work in Los Angeles, where she was once a movie star, Marion Davies, fiftyish, was cited on the radio by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and daughter Anna as "the woman of the day." Mrs. Roosevelt was in line for a distinction of her own: granddaughter Sistie Boettiger Seagraves would present her in midsummer with her first great-grandchild. In an eventful week, the former First Lady did some reminiscing about how much her late husband had enjoyed movies. But, she recalled, he fell asleep during Gone With the Wind and was quite angry on waking up to find that...