Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sales were brisk). In groceries, housewives were buying flour in 25-lb. bags that had sewn-in drawstrings; the buyer had only to unstitch a seam and she had a gaily printed cotton apron. Across the U.S., thousands of women, following instructions in special pattern books, were turning similar dress-printed bags into clothes, curtains, tablecloths, napkins, quilts and slipcovers...
Twenty-five HLU members will occupy two tables at the banquet. They will also attend the State ADA's weekend convention. Senator Hubert Humphrey, new A.D.A. national chairman, is featured speaker at the dinner, one of 16 similar affairs scheduled simultaneously throughout the nation...
...invitation Franklin Roosevelt scrawled a similar note to Military Aide "Pa" Watson: "Tell them I will go if I can arrange...
Wolf compared the present nationalist movement in southeast Asia to similar expressions of nationalism in the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century. What is remarkable about the Asian movement, Wolf said, is that it has all been telescoped into the last 30 years. At the turn of the century nationalist sentiment hadn't even begun to brew there...
...Foundation began by sponsoring concerts in Washington similar to those at South Mountain. Its realm soon enlarged, however, to publications, radio, bringing European musicians to America, awarding medals for outstanding service to chamber music, continuing to commission new works, and, perhaps most important, beginning a program of free "extension concerts" in Europe and in educational and cultural institutions in the United States...