Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberals had any fears that Drew's campaigning would have a similar effect on them, they failed to show it. The only thrust that seemed to worry them was the argument being used against St. Laurent in his home province of Quebec. Tory campaigners charged that St. Laurent was centralizing power in Ottawa, and thus undermining the autonomy of the predominantly French and Roman Catholic province. In driving home this point, the Tories got help from Liberal-hating independent candidates like Montreal's elephantine Mayor Camillien Houde. Said Houde: "Better for us to have in Ottawa a Protestant...
Other officers elected for a similar term were three directors: Miss Fanny H. Phillips of So. Hanover, Miss Elizabeth B. Nichols of Boston, and Mrs. James H. Townsend of Belmont...
...smokers; that all men below 41 (on whom information could be obtained) dying from this cause during 1946 and 1947 in Cincinnati were cigarette smokers; that abnormal addiction to tobacco smoking is present to a highly significant degree in male coronary victims of all ages; that these facts and similar ones for peptic ulcer are most likely based on the well-known toxicity of nicotine for nerve cells of the automatic (involuntary) nervous system controlling these organs...
...Intern Program, is designed to provide selected students with experience in United Nations work. This and a similar State Department program will be continued next year...
...would be a notably narrow skyscraper (72 ft. wide, 544 ft. high). "Greater total width would have been undesirable," the FORUM explained, because so many of the prospective tenants were high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's 4,000 separate air-conditioning units. "Such a luxurious standard," said the FORUM, "is enforced on U.N. by the contiguity of Icelanders and Abyssinians . . . each with his own idea of thermal comfort...