Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sikhs, estimated that the killing would last three more months and that 500,000 Hindus and Sikhs and as many Moslems would die of murder, epidemic and starvation. In another statement, Tara Singh gave this grisly forecast an algebraic twist. He pointed out that fleeing Sikhs (who are richer) had left six million acres of land, while an equal number of fleeing Moslems had left only two million acres. His proposal: drive enough Moslems from their farms to balance the property exchange...
...Richer Life." The villages in the valleys are peaceful and primitive. I stood in the main street of Belmont, which has a population of 349 souls, and looked at a red, white and blue poster. It showed a blond young giant in blue overalls holding a peasant girl by the hand; she in turn wac clasping the hand of a chubby infant. All three of them were depicted as standing in the middle of a field of corn, smiling brightly. At the foot of the poster, in great black letters, it said: "Paysans! Paysannes! Pour une vie phis riche-votes...
...some of the news was good. The Rev. William Warren Sweet of the University of Chicago cheerfully reported that "American Methodism is growing richer & richer. Never have our churches and colleges and universities been so prosperous, never have endowments mounted so high. There have been more church debts paid off in the past few years than ever before in Methodist history...
...RICHER BY ASIA (432 pp.)-Edmond Taylor-Houghton Mifflin...
...first, and classic, account of German "psychological warfare" was Edmond Taylor's The Strategy of Terror (1940). In 1943, Taylor got a wartime job well suited to his gifts, as OSS coordinator with Lord Louis Mountbatten's Southeast Asia Command. Richer by Asia tells how 28 months in Asia changed...