Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court moved to Cambridge to escape the worst of the plague. In the midst of the winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library including all save one of the volumes John Harvard had donated. Feeling partly responsible for the tragedy, the Commonwealth put forth funds to the sum of $23,000 for a new building, and Governor Francis Bernard himself designed it in traditional Georgian style. Thus in 1766 the College's fifth oldest edifice...
...would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...
...Have More Sugar? should be read for an answer, My First Parachute Jump as a shared experience. Light reading matter should be read breezily, serious or technical stuff more intensively. If the reader knows what to look for and how to pace himself, he will save time. Practice makes perfect, says Dr. Center; after a while, reading may even get to be fun. Backward readers may even discover that great books are not merely printed paper but the communications of eternal minds. Readers who once discover that fact will soon leave behind the clinical machines...
...edification of the audience, a gentleman stone dead in a shower and the hero (you) half dead and half drowned in whiskey in a wrecked automobile. There are moments of suspense, that are given a refreshing new dimension by the point of view, but they fail to save the picture from a dreariness that is enhanced by indifferent acting by everyone but Montgomery and one minor character...
Stating that leadfoil was needed for radiation-resistant insulation, the Society urged students to save gum and cigarette wrappers. By nightfall about a wastebasketful had been collected, the Society reported...