Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate forces of Barkley and Taft prepared yesterday to tear up the battleground of price control, the nine-man Harvard Committee to Save O.P.A. set the hour of noon tomorrow as the time for students in the University to put themselves on record in favor of effective price ceilings...
...press). Patrick intends to make Holiday bigger, do something about its cookie-cutter picture layouts. Fuller made clear: there will be no more space for the poor man's holiday. "I don't want stories about how to cook supper in the backyard or how to save up 50? to go to Coney Island. I want articles about . . . what to do and what to see at Yellowstone Park. And in between, articles about what to wear at such places. That's what people want from a magazine called Holiday. Even people who can't afford...
Purpose of the demonstration planned for next week is, in Geller's words, "to show Congress what we think is the overwhelming student sentiment in favor of our purpose, which is to save OPA." He said the committee may send a petition to Congress...
...wept. (Maria had forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire furniture against the walls...
...nearly 20 years, the physicists worked hard to "save" the ether. But the ether could not be saved, and with it went the authority of Newton's scientific decalogue, which depended upon it. Science, the guiding mind of technological civilization, was in crisis...