Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just these wider vistas that the pickle packers are endeavoring to bring to the surface. The job will be a difficult one. There is a disturbing cultural lag in the realm of the pickle. We are satisfied, however, that the future of the pickle is in good hands; given the proper facts, given the freedom of discussion in the market-place of opinion, given the technical know-how, the American people can be counted on to weigh all factors impartially, and give a rising vote of confidence to the pickle--a vote that cannot be gainsaid...
Britain's Ernie Bevin journeyed to Berlin last week to have a look at history. He said: "I want to get Europe settled for a couple of hundred years. I don't think it is beyond the realm of possibility. But it will take a lot of time, a lot of patience, a lot of work...
...understand. One day last week, Emperor Hirohito celebrated his 48th birthday. Between morning and nightfall, nearly 400,000 Japanese filed into the palace gardens to pay their respects to the Mikado. Since the Emperor has formally ceased to be a god and has begun to move freely about his realm, he has become even more popular with his people than in the old days. His subjects seem to prefer his humanity to his divinity; at baseball games (he recently attended his first-see cut), among workers, wherever he goes, they take inexplicable comfort from his invariable approving remark...
...function of the Liberal Union has not been to provide an unofficial course in Classics of the Cinema. Its realm of instruction lies elsewhere. In the past year and a half, the HLU has turned its film series into a profitable thing for itself, but has shown only two films, "Man's Hope," and "Ivan the Terrible," which might hold any interest for the serious student. The remaining films have been either last year's box-office sensations or fairly frequent tenants at the small foreign-film theaters...
...such stuff as this that overconfidence is made, and overconfidence can wreak just as much havoc in crew as elsewhere in the realm of sport. Add to this the fact that BU, which has had the whole-hearted backing of the metropolitan press all spring, is definitely out to prove themselves in this race, and you have a potential source of danger...