Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North. On the Leningrad Front the Germans pressed hard, in a hurry clean things up before mud cluttered things up. In that sector the worst rains probably over, but the days were getting so short, the sun's rays were beginning to slant so flat that soon, perhaps within a fortnight, what little new did fall would never dry. Mud would get deeper, softer, crueler...
...kind of odd jobs. In this war chaplains can concentrate on spiritual work, and, instead of holding services in mess halls and "Y" huts, they will have a $21,220 chapel for every post (22 in the biggest camps), each seating 400 soldiers, equipped with altar, electric organ, slant roof, steeple. The altars are being built on tracks, so they can be slid back when the chapels are used for other purposes. Ground for the first of these new chapels was broken last fortnight at Arlington...
...copies to some 5,000 newspapers, magazines, picture agencies, radio stations, etc. He marked it "confidential." Last week Frank Knox's cat was let out of the bag, not by any recipient of his unusual letter, but by the mimeographed publication Uncensored, a Manhattan weekly with an isolationist slant. Uncensored had received no letter from the Navy's Secretary, felt no compunctions of confidence in publishing Secretary Knox's letter...
This would not particularly worry President Roosevelt and the U. S. Department of State if there were not something of a pro-Nazi, anti-U.S. slant to much that President Arias says and does. In the official version of his inaugural address was the statement that he believed the U. S. knew how to cooperate with Panama on a basis of good will, but that Panama, although too small to defend herself, could always make concessions to foreign countries who would defend her against demonstrations of ill will. Dr. Arias thought twice and skipped this sentence when he delivered...
...Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who takes as students none but the best. Said Freda, "We'd never seen a collection like it before. We'd never had the influence of the French Impressionists. It's almost breath-taking." Ida: "Now we're getting a new slant on art. It's invigorating...