Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Logan Pearsall Smith, 80, critic and essayist whose ironic, japanned prose* (All Trivia, On Reading Shakespeare) brought him only closet fame; in London. Philadelphian by birth, Londoner by choice, he felicitously chronicled small beer and rusticated in Literature Past, only now & then spoke over his shoulder to Literature Present such querulous words as: Why does Ezra Pound...
...mortgage curve was starting up again, after steadily falling during the war years. But the amount of individual mortgages has increased to an average of 58% of the purchase price; in many cases the mortgage is larger than the value of the land in 1941. Would the farmers again shoulder mortgages to buy more land and equipment, now that manpower and machinery were once more available? No one was sure...
...prefers to pocket the $2,000 a week he gets from making the big stars a little bigger. That way, he says, he can spend his free time fishing, eating eclairs and running a hardware store in Los Angeles County. Reading his fan mail over Jack Benny's shoulder doesn't bother...
...From now on the leaders of the various parties of society will all participate in the government and shoulder jointly the great responsibility of shaping the future of the country. From now on the heavy task . . . rests not on the Kuomintang alone and much less on me as an individual. . . . From now on, whether in the government or out of it, I will faithfully and resolutely observe, as a citizen should, all the decisions of this conference, sincerely work for peace and solidarity, and urge the nation to take the road of unification and democracy...
...union, Justice Rand conceded, could hardly be blamed for seeking a closed shop. Said he: "I doubt if any circumstance provokes more resentment in a plant than this sharing of the fruits of unionist work and courage by the nonmember. . . . All employes should be required to shoulder their portion of the burden of expense for administering the law of their employment, the union contract. . . . They must take the burden with the benefit...