Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this discussion were merely academic," he concludes, "I might well keep out of it, as others in similar positions have done." But the scientist in Haldane had, at least temporarily, vanquished the straight party-liner, even though his stand might well get him tabbed as a deviationist. "I believe that wholly unjustifiable attacks have been made on my profession [by supporters of Lysenko], and one of the most important lessons which I have learned as a Marxist is the duty of supporting my fellow workers. We are not infallible, but we certainly do not hold many of the opinions . . . attributed...
Lifting Gloom. Writers and actors were also grousing. In Variety, Scripter Carroll Carroll wrote: "Perhaps the pump has to be primed by the government... Oil has tax advantages. Aviation has subsidies. Why not offer similar inducements to throw heavy money into...
...Rome, Italy's senators got similar exercise. Just before the Atlantic pact debate, Interior Minister Mario Scelba discussed Communist charges that he had used his police force illegally during the recent farm strike. Said he: "Idle talk to make us lose our nerve. But the government in general and I in particular have stronger nerves than some quarters." Communist nerves had been edgy all day. When a Christian Democratic senator called a Communist senator "an unworthy child of Sardinia," the Sardinian demanded that his opponent retract the remark on pain of having his ears cut off. The opponent...
...rest of the U.S. business colony watched the Gould case with morbid fascination. For the first two months under the new "People's Government," one firm after another-Standard Oil, the Shanghai Telephone Co., China Electric, Caltex and even the U.S. consulate-had been subjected to similar lock...
Into a small, smart shop on London's Bond Street strolled two women. One was a $24-a-week typist, the other a peeress. In turn, each one plunked down 49 shillings ($9.80), and walked out smiling with a new pair of Joyce playshoes. In similar shops in Manhattan and Melbourne, Los Angeles and Lima, Sydney and Santiago, other women were doing the same thing last week. In a single day, in eight countries around the world, some 16,000 pairs of Joyce shoes are sold...