Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capetown, South Africa reader, TIME had an equally interesting effect. He wrote that a young lady living in a small town in New York gave her copy of the Feb. 15, 1948 issue of TIME to the Red Cross, which put it aboard a British passenger ship at Madeira, where he got hold of it. When he got to Capetown, where he was working his way as a seaman, he wrote a letter thanking the young lady, whose stenciled name and address were on the cover of her copy of TIME. The upshot of that was that they began...
...took their first major free election since 1933 with a mixed sense of duty and fatalism. In Fechenheim, near Frankfurt, a worn-looking war widow puzzled over her ballot. An election official told an American bystander: "Under Hitler, the choice was simpler-each ballot had a big Ja and small Nein." A young man said: "The trouble is we do not really know what we are voting for. All the politicians talk about is what is wrong with the other parties and with the Allies. No one tells us how his party can end unemployment...
...stockbroker, and his family are more typical of Neutra's clients. The B.s lived in a conventional house, furnished with antiques and larger than they needed, since their 21-year-old son was away at college most of the time. A year ago they decided to build something small and modern on a steep lot in the hills near Coldwater Canyon. Mr. B. was afraid of getting what he described as "cowshed modern," so they called the best man they knew of, Neutra. They were afraid he might not be interested in such a small project...
Warren had found "excessive" payments of $11.5 million in 1,114 cases (12.1%) out of 9,195 contract settlements audited. This was only "a small sampling," and he could not "hazard a guess as to the entire extent of fraud and overpayment" in some $300 billion of war contracts. Even so, it was "a shocking situation." In some instances, said Warren, 20% of the contract price had been 'kicked back" to Government officials, 'either directly, through their relatives, or through dummy corporations" owned by the Government officials. Other sample cases...
...Lark Said: "Carry On!" When ecstatic August walked by her side, her small feet appeared so much part of him that he "seemed to be walking on four legs." Pouring out his passion, he wrote her: "Forgive me!!!!!! Sunday morning. I will, I will be mad. Now I've talked about it all. Who to? To the spring, to the oaks, to the willows, to the anemones, and the bells sang and the lark said: 'Carry on!' ... I love you, I love you, I love...