Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precise answer. Knowing better than anyone that a possible perjury charge hung on his every word, he almost never offered a flat yes or a flat no. His favorite phrase, as he fenced tediously with the committee, was: "To the best of my recollection." He used it and similar phrases 198 times...
Between the buyers' and the sellers' strikes, Worth Street has suffered its worst slump in years. A few optimists point out that a similar slump last year ended quickly when retail stores began to lay in winter stocks. Others take a more serious view. Because cotton mills abroad are producing again, exports are off 10% from 1947's record high. At home the first flush of the postwar demand for cotton goods has worn off; New York bargain basements, for instance, are selling shirts for $2.95 which last year brought nearly twice as much. To many...
...said the Soviet advisers were too expensive; others said it was not necessary for the Yugoslav army to benefit from the experience of the Soviet army . . . Yugoslav military leaders started to insult Soviet military advisers . . . [Furthermore] Yugoslav security forces were controlling and supervising Soviet representatives . . , We have come upon similar practices in bourgeois states...
...father's lawyer said one in 100. The puzzled judge asked the deans of four Chicago medical schools to investigate and give him a report. Before the deans could act, Mrs. Lamphere changed her mind. Convincer: 19-month-old Christine Ulrich, who survived a similar operation, looks fine...
After looking on, U.S. Commissioner Flemming said he would consider a similar plan for the U.S. He didn't think the U.S. would be able to give candidates a weekend at a country manor, but "I think the idea of keeping the applicant under observation for two or three days, of permitting him to demonstrate his personality and capacity for leadership, is a very practical approach...