Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, welcomed students at the beginning of the new college year. As quoted by the New York Times, he offered his charges a ripe, fallacious enthymeme. Said he: "Twice isolationism has failed and now we must ask ourselves whether it will save us a third time...
...household art of mechanical dehydration, engineers and food chemists have worked out a home food dryer that can be used in any kitchen. Like the first horseless carriage, the home dehydrator is crude and sometimes unreliable, but it can save a lot of time and labor. The Department of Agriculture thinks so well of its possibilities that WPB has allotted manufacturers enough material to make 100,000 home dehydrators this year...
Most of the parties and faces were familiar. Save for James Dillon, all candidates agreed on the one thing Eire desires above all else: to remain neutral. At the campaign's halfway point, observers found an astonishing un-Irish apathy, a lack of hecklers and issues. Then, in the closing rounds, William Cosgrave demanded an international-minded coalition government to assure Eire a proper place in the postwar world...
...have] had no man great enough to declare at the necessary moment the true meaning of this war." Our leaders are "men of local minds." Thus, our war is "not even a war to save civilization. It is only a war to save European civilization"-and it is to India, China, the Far East that America must look for its rebirth...
...lent him money, and after his death became his literary executor. He did one of the poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will sink into oblivion, without leaving a landmark to tell that he once existed; or, if he is spoken of hereafter, he will be quoted as the unfaithful servant who abused his trust. The poet: Edgar Allan...