Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SINCE fire fighting is not a regular course of study at Vassar, they have left it all to the fire department. In fact there is a rule forbidding girls to extinguish a fire, even if they can do it with a glass of water. "Lose a minute and save a fire" is their motto...
...opportunity: "Parents labor and save to provide formal educations for their children and when that education is finished there is no place for the boy or girl to go except to start at the bottom of an impossibly long ladder of a few great corporations dominated by America's 60 families...
...World War no correspondent would have dreamed of handing to a French or German censor a dispatch containing such obvious dynamite, however correct, and the placid Chinese censor as a matter of fact indulged Chicago's Daily News to the extent of passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating fresh chaos...
...building would be a very good thing and if building costs were lower there would be more. But if the Government comes out with an announcement that it aims to make building cheaper next season, it checks building and planning at the present, for people believe that they can save money by waiting...
...onetime Champion Carnera was discovered sprawled out on two beds in a Budapest hospital, wistfully admiring a silk bathrobe he used to wear in the ring. He had suffered a kidney hemorrhage and was definitely through with fighting. One of his few prudent acts while in the money will save him from the fuddled penury of most prizefighters' declining years. He had given his mother a little hotel in Venice. The injured and obsolete giant plans to go there and retire...