Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Library of Congress sometimes discovers that it is richer than it knew. Last winter, for instance, the Library found that it owns probably the world's finest collection of early U.S. movies. Last week this treasure-which is on paper instead of celluloid film-was still unexplored, uncatalogued. But it was known to include such riches...
There was always the excess-profits tax, said Maine's Senator Ralph O. Brewster. "We still hope the rich will not get richer out of this...
Opposed were voices from richer states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Nevada) which would lose on the deal. Likewise opposed were States' rights diehards. Observers held out little hope for the bill. But nobody denied that the low level of teachers' salaries played a big role in a U.S. educational crisis far deeper than that of World...
...some instances with the Japs. But most of them turned the Jap propaganda back on their bowlegged conquerors. They made up their own slogans, which they passed around by word of mouth. One sample: Asia Raya, Nippon Kaya, Asia Paya, which means: in "Greater Asia" Japan will be richer but the rest of Asia will live in misery. The confident Javanese natives had their own three "A"s: Awas Ada America, which means: "Beware, there is America." The Javanese are also biding their time...
...Donets basin is the greatest prize the Germans have won in Russia. If they have to retreat from Rostov, giving up the eastern half of the basin, they could still try to hold a straightened version of the Kharkov-Mariupol line from which they started last year, and the richer western half of the basin would still be German. Any retirement beyond that line, meaning the sacrifice of all the Donets area, could be attributed only to utter defeat...