Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regrettable that Father Murray refuses to answer in a serious manner the expressed dangers to traditional American ideals posed by the Roman Catholic Church . . . Romanism at present is bearing the brunt of Communistic attacks against religion, and is needing the aid and sympathy of all Christian people...
...enormous difference between "tomorrow" and "now" and the armed forces were the first who would have to readjust their timing. Minutes after the news flash whipped through the Pentagon's interlaced corridors, officers were hastily pulling papers from confidential files, and translating future strategy into plans for the present...
...slightest. He had not even bothered to talk with the southern operators, some of whom had precipitated the walkout (say the miners) by withholding payments to the welfare fund. He still refused to discuss his new contract demands with the northern operators. (Best guess: a boost in the present royalty for the fund to 30? a ton, reduction of the present eight-hour day to seven with no loss...
...widest range the "talking drums" can cover is 10 or 15 miles, less than a quarter of the present unrelayed TV transmission range. Language differences bar relay coast-to-coast hookups. Most drums can send only cut & dried messages, like those which Western Union puts out for unimaginative U.S. customers. The drum service is usually person-to-person, and each member of the tribe has his drumbeat code name, e.g.: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing," or, "Don't go where the lucky fellows are taking women along lest you get into trouble...
Like many a younger child, the University of California at Los Angeles has long been jealous of its big sister at Berkeley, the University of California. Though U.C.L.A. has sprouted into something of an Amazon itself (present enrollment: 14,983), its graduates think it has sometimes been treated like a gangling adolescent. One graduate gripe: though Berkeley has had a law school for years, U.C.L.A. had none...