Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood is in the dreadful predicament of a pauperized nabob suddenly reduced to four limousines. Oldtimers are telling newtimers that the town has never been so scared. Chief apparent reason: the new "confiscatory" British tax, which would rob Hollywood of its comfortable profit margin (TIME...
...laws, two kinds of happiness, two kinds of love. And freedom doesn't count before love. . . . You'll never be richer or freer than in divesting yourselves of your selves. If you give only half your life, the other half will be resentful and its reproaches will rob you of joy. . . . Why worry about those who consume us? The vine and the corn do not refuse themselves to the unworthy. . . . Be a sacrifice in the universal sacrifice . . . come to Love . . . Love is strong enough to save the world...
Every time you blow up a British arsenal, or wreck a British jail, or send a British railroad train skyhigh, or rob a British bank, or let go with your guns and bombs at the British betrayers and invaders of your homeland, the Jews of America make a little holiday in their hearts. Not all the Jews, of course...
...sight. Similarly, the poll results show that an overwhelming number of men now in the courses feel increased enrollment in the section meetings will drastically lower instruction value. Will not the jump in size which must accompany extension of the Program to the entire body of Freshmen and Sophomores rob the courses of the top quality they have boasted this year! Despite the fact that the number of sections might increase and the intimate scale thus hold fast, the present practice of professors meeting in person with section groups would necessarily come...
...dropped the Mt. Clemens suit. To him, and the Mt. Clemens workers, the game did not seem worth the gamble. At best, they could not hope to collect more than a few thousand dollars. At worst, a Supreme Court reversal would kill all the pending portal suits-and rob union labor of one of its most potent bargaining weapons...