Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmers seek no special dispensations, but they must have the opportunity to farm efficiently without exploiting their soil, and at a fair remuneration," it was stated yesterday in a recommendation to Governor Leverett E. Saltonstall '14, President of the Board of Overseers, by the Subcommittee on Agricultural industry of the Massachusetts Committee on Post-War Readjustment...
...airplane had given the Arctic a new global importance. But North American development of the Arctic has lagged behind that of the Soviet Union. Now Canada and the U.S. were getting ready to move on a bigger scale than ever. Some questions the new Institute will seek to answer...
...company in 1931, have since used it to pool research and patents. Reason for giving it away (according to well-informed oil men) : the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Universal as a possible trust, and to avoid a protracted struggle with the Government, Universal preferred to seek sanctuary...
...Margaret when I am gone," said Emily, stroking Margaret's hand. But a few days later Emily went to see Roger Sherman's stamp collection. He whispered: "Dear Emily, I think of you as a lily, swaying on its stem. . . . Let me be your knight. . . . We shall seek for ... truth, together." "What if we don't find it?" asked Emily gloomily. But Roger knew she had accepted him. "Shall you tell Margaret?" he asked. "Not yet," said Emily nervously...
...France other American correspondents who are attached to the Ninth Air Force backed up their ousted colleagues. Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's Jack Tait: "Correspondents have been told that they must confine the bulk of their activities to coverage of Ninth Air Force news [or] seek reassignment elsewhere. ... It seemed inconceivable that one group engaged in this war would consider publicity for itself more precious than giving the U.S. the story of this...