Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British prices so high? At least partly because British industry helps support Labor's elaborate welfare state. But another big reason is British industry itself, which grew inefficient and complacent long before Labor came to power...
...favorite Mayflower Hotel musicians -a guitarist, a violinist, and an accordion player. "You're a little late," said Mrs. Hadley, who had been waiting for an hour at the St. Louis airport. Asked if they would elope, Barkley laughed and said, "There's only one reason for a man and woman to elope. That's if their mammy and pappy object...
...about 11,000 cases in the U.S.-a record total for so early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...
...reason for this driving ambition baffles many a jaded Hollywood operative. Elizabeth has had just about everything that a moderately prosperous family with good connections could give her. Her father, Illinois-born Francis Taylor,* is an art dealer who used to be a European buyer for his uncle's art business, Howard Young Galleries. Her mother, Sara Sothern Taylor, once had a good part in a 1922 Broadway production of Channing Pollock's The Fool. Elizabeth grew up to seven in a handsome London house, and in a 15th Century lodge in Kent. Her family got around...
...should read on. Some authorities hold that "touching wood" signifies touching the Holy Cross for protection; others look still further back into the past and see it as an invocation of tree spirits. A ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle, which is inviolable for the same reason that makes "three on a match" taboo: both represent the Trinity...