Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Library's propaganda section evidence on a vast scale of "the mind's total abdication from truth." If he is right, the Library may prove to be a monastery in a dark age, where scholars may help man to understand his ancestors' errors and reason to regain her throne...
...safari through the jungle is illustrated with an animated map. The voice of a commentator speaks: "Week after week they plod onward with nothing to guide them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen. When Crosby tries to argue Hope into wrestling the octopus, he explains : "I'm trying to make you famous-people...
...first time, the University has formally agreed to require employees who have been members of a union at any time since 1938, and who are now in good standing, to regain membership in the Union or leave the employ of the University...
...President turned again to business, finance and industry for help in the defense crisis, as the defense program became not just one new bureau but the whole Washington operation, the mutually distrustful Janizariat found a new unity, began to scheme how to regain their lost control...
...Against strict orders, they got drunk oftener. By September, soldiers were forbidden to carry sidearms. More & more of them listened to the London broadcasts (penalty, two years in a concentration camp). Such symptoms might never focus in revolt; but it was safe to say that German morale could never regain its high pitch of summer...