Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move is more insidious than Mr. Lewis' pre-Pearl Harbor decision to become an anti-New Deal isolationist. It is more harmful than his too-recent attempt to throw a strike wrench into WLB's Little Steel decision. This is the last desperate attempt of an embittered man to regain his former power, even at the cost of shattering Labor's delicately constructed moves toward cooperation, inside and outside of the ranks...
...Solomon Islands' sea battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned the scene into "a tennis match in hell." Thrown back when they tried to regain a foothold on Guadalcanal Island, the Japanese were trapped by a counterattacking flanking force, the sea at their rear and U.S. forces covering the Tenaru river (see cut, p. 34). When U.S. tanks attacked, there was nothing for the Japs to do but surrender (which few did) or be crushed...
...Zinsser of Harvard. For Europeans did not become plague-resistant: they still succumb readily enough when in such plague centers as India. Nor did they become notably more hygienic: the flea still flourishes in much of Europe. Perhaps the plague bacteria lost some of their virulence. But they may regain their virulence as they did in the 14th Century...
...Harvard, Radcliffe, and Summer School volunteers to canvass the University community and adjacent areas for the signatures of Cambridge voters. Eliot, who was gerrymandered out of his former district, must receive the all-important Democratic nomination if he is to regain his seat in Congress, the HLU pointed...
...hull must be drained as many of the tons of dirty water as engineering judgment decides. And at least 10,000 cubic yards of muck must be sucked out of her shell. When all this is done, with a hundred other more technical operations, the Lafayette will regain buoyancy, will right herself like a released rolypoly-the Navy hopes...