Word: sine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers and represents only 125 independent companies, most of them very small. But quite apart from the crucial 15% of its production that goes to defense, its demise would leave a colossal gap in the U.S. economy-through its 5,000-odd normal customers. Die castings are a sine qua non of hundreds of consumer goods from zippers to outboard motors, from clocks to vacuum cleaners, from fire extinguishers to drug dispensers, from an essential small piston rod for automobiles to a whole radiator grille...
...justify it to the world and to himself. Thanks to the planter's own angry guilt over wenching, the Southern white woman became the object of "downright gyneolatry." In Georgia in the 1830's this toast was proposed: "Woman!!! The centre and circumference, diameter and periphery, sine tangent and secant of all our affections!" Meanwhile an exacerbated sense of honor was turned in fury against all forms of criticism. Naturally many a newspaper editor was shot. Says Cash: "The South was en route to the savage ideal: to that ideal whereunder dissent and variety are completely suppressed...
...Snob apparently derives from S. Nob. (Sine Nobilitate), which was appended to names of commoners attending English schools and colleges before the 18th Century, when education was commonly regarded as the prerogative of aristocracy...
...holding almost 10% of the issue after four days. Next week Morgan Stanley pulled the price plug from under the market, freed dealers to sell the last $1,390,000 at any price they could get. Same week, Montgomery Ward postponed a $31,000,000 offering of common stock sine...
WASHINGTON--The 1941 national defense budget, already the greatest in the nation's peace-time history, tonight became the No. 1 problem of Congress as legislators paused in their plunge toward sine die adjournment to ponder the consequences of the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries...