Word: reflection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price Administrator Leon Henderson last week took note of this inflationary threat. Price rises, he warned retailers, "should in no case reflect more than the actual dollar amount of the . . . excise tax." But retail merchants paid him little mind. Most of them went merrily on their way, marking...
Concludes Mr. Dulles: "In its present form, the [Roosevelt-Churchill] Declaration seems to reflect primarily the conceptions of the old sovereignty system. It follows too closely the pattern of Versailles, without, however, any of the liberalizing international institutions which that treaty sought to bring into existence. . . . We are entitled to expect a bold approach to the problem of peace. It has been demonstrated, beyond doubt, that the old system of many disconnected sovereignties, each a law unto itself, inevitably breeds war. We must not keep humanity chained to such a wheel. Laying aside timidity, adding practicality to sentimentality, we must...
...carelessly worded message which could be misinterpreted could change the situation from good clean fun into something which would reflect badly upon the individual and the college. We ask your cooperation! Anne Wilder, Director Press Bureau, Mount Holyoke College...
...disease, particularly gonorrhea, is now the Army's most serious medical problem. Many private physicians growl that their former patients-men who went to camp healthy-became infected within six months. At present the Army rate is close to that of the civilian population, as it tends to reflect the civilian rate in each neighborhood. Selective service examination figures vary from Florida (53.5 syphilitics per 1,000 white men, 380 per 1,000 Negroes) to Connecticut (1.4 per 1,000). Highest rates are in the South; lowest in New England and the north central states...
...interests are not primarily in the number and sizes of communities but in the laws governing the conservation of energy in the processing of raw materials and in the distribution of finished goods within a social-economic system. . . . The number and sizes of a nation's . . . communities may reflect the economy with which that nation processes and distributes its consumable goods...