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Word: rest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere under the determined rump of Chairman John Lesinski of the House Education and Labor Committee there rest a half-dozen bills to provide $300,000,000 federal aid to education. They are not expected to emerge in time for action during this session of Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barden Bill | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...that our people basically have the same goals as you...we are here to tell you this, though loud and powerful voices which have been raised in our country may have caused you to think otherwise." It continues with a description of America repaying its cultural debt to the rest of the world with "arms and economic plans that cripple your industries"; the foreword conands of translations of the original text have cluded that "like you, we love fun, our people, and our land...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Youth Told of Grim U.S. at Budapest | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...decided. Among those determined to make the Supreme Court define the limits of such contempt is Eugene Dennis, secretary of the American Communist Party. At its final session last term the Court decided to make him wait a little longer. It looks as if Dennis, and the rest of the country will have the Court's answer to this and some other important questions in a short while...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

...somewhat brighter yesterday. John Coan reported in uniform (sans pads) and exercised for a while, still favoring his bum right knee. Chief Bender, limping slightly, was in full uniform. He jogged around from time to time, took part in a couple of plays against the dummies and spent the rest of the afternoon ambling up and down behind the squad, as if he could hardly wait to resume regular contact duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Polishes Offense and Defense | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...stock market last week suffered its hardest blow this year. In one day's trading, sellers who were gloomy over the British devaluation and the threat of strikes drove the Dow-Jones industrial average down 3.38 points. But in the rest of the week, the market bounced right up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short View | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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