Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee, ready to send the loan to the Senate floor, asked no questions. Said Chairman Alben W. Barkley: "Thank you, Mr. Fish. Your statement will be considered by the committee, when it gets around to it." That might be a long time...
...main question has been over the message that we shall send to MacArthur. . . . On talking with the President this morning over the telephone, I suggested and he approved the idea that we should send the final alert; namely, that he should be on the qui vive for any attack...
Last week in Hollywood, old Walter Duranty, 61 and ailing, set up shop in a new kind of stall. For $1 a month, he offered to send potential customers a "personal" (but multigraphed) letter a week, with their choice of topics: from travel and world affairs to letters for children "and, finally, letters of affection, which might mean any kind of love letter, imaginary, of course. . . ." Aside from an income, Man-of-Letters Duranty said he just wanted "to share with you my experience & knowledge...
...biggest all-star show of all time," as its sponsors strongly hint, but it will do until a bigger one comes along. A super-spectacular, hyper-Hollywood, tnple-Technicolored variety show, it runs for almost two hours. The total impact is calculated to send cinemaddicts reeling home in a state of dizzy satisfaction...
...absorb an extra 250,000 students. So far, 41% of all back-to-school G.I.s had packed into 38 schools, largely ignoring 712 other fully accredited colleges. In some cases the G.I. was only guilty of trying for the best-why go to Podunk College, when the Government will send you to Yale? But others had a better reason: they wanted training in trades or professions which small liberal arts colleges were not equipped to teach...