Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing he asks about when told of a battle.* That sensitiveness, in turn, his intimates say, helps explain his Darlanesque "expediency" dealings. The President has said, in effect: Maybe we shouldn't deal with this fellow, but if we do I think we can accomplish our objective and save 30,000 lives...
...Progress. Russia's Pokryshkins did not save her, as the R.A.F. saved Britain in 1940. They could not, for in the vastness of Russia's plains the infantryman and the artilleryman bore the biggest burden. But Pokryshkin and his comrades helped to win an uphill fight for the control of Russia's skies, contributed much to this year's victories...
...save excess-profits taxes, Baltimore's small Tom Moore Distillery last week declared a dividend of 27 gal. of bourbon whiskey for every one of its 17,500 shares...
...Joseph ("Old Joe") Rank, 89, England's richest man, an inconspicuous centimillionaire; in Reigate, England. A tall, soberly tailored flour miller, in his Yorkshire youth he felt a call to the Methodist missions, decided instead to follow Methodist Founder John Wesley's injunction: "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." In his fortunate grain deals he counseled with God. When his World War I profits distressed him-and Premier Lloyd George told him that only an Act of Parliament could take his business out of the black-he turned...
...finished when you were sick. All right, dear child. There is no reason why anyone should die of smallpox. I am inspiring the doctors to vaccinate everybody. Once vaccinated, they will be protected from smallpox.' " Serapia explained that immunization for diphtheria and scarlet fever could also save children's lives and that it was her mission to tell other children's mothers about it. The fable concludes: "Soon there will be no more disease. Because everybody will be vaccinated...