Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present rate of return on investments, the scholarship fund, President Jordan explained, will yield a yearly income...
After the ballots were counted and she had lost, she found she could still change her mind, and sailed for this country, temporarily giving up her post on the Munich City Council. If the present government falls, however, she will be forced to return to Germany before the school year here is complete...
...take a vacation and get married, after Soviet Press Chief Georgi Pavlevich Frantsev promised that there would be no trouble getting a re-entry permit. (Until the regulations were changed last spring, such a permit had been automatically issued with the exit visa.) But when Newman tried to return to Moscow three months ago, he found the door shut. Last week the Herald Tribune reluctantly announced the closing of its vacant Russian office. That left just five U.S. correspondents in Moscow,* about half the number that was there when Reporter Newman arrived...
When his mother died in 1910, his strongest tie to the old country was cut. His father wanted him to go to Zurich to study industrial chemistry, but the boy had grown up in a fertile country and was fascinated each spring by the return of the generative cycle. Frequently he asked himself: What is life? How does it begin? How does it function...
...become a Bogart stencil; as a scowling rebel who just wants to be left alone by laws, red tape and good works, half-villain Hero Bogart is repeatedly maneuvered by his better nature into warring against evil. In his recent Key Largo, the malevolent-browed hero blocked the return of Capone-style gangsterism to the U.S., and in the soon-to-be-released Chain Lightning his visionary test-piloting insures the safety of kids who will fly jet-propelled airplanes. In Tokyo, he foils the resurgence of Japanese militarism...