Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the German attack slackened a little. Mud and weariness had taken their toll. Troops who had battered at each other almost without pause for two weeks got a breathing spell. The greatest assault yet had been beaten off. But no man in the beachhead doubted for a moment that there would be more...
...flash of genius, but on the work of groups painfully sifting through thousands of costly experiments, the new ruling, unless reversed, may make many a corporate discovery unpatentable. Of this possibility, Manhattan's conservative Journal of Commerce took a Stygian view, saying: "The Arnold dictum . . . could spell the end of legal protection for the fruits of industrial research...
...insult the Copacabana's boss ("He can't even spell da name!"). He may insult the menu ("Dere goes a load of ice with three olives. Twelve-fifty for dat load. Somebody's got to pay for da cocktail room!"). He may insult labor when a busboy knocks over a chair ("He's gotta pick it up. No one else can touch it. Union!"). He may challenge the whole situation when a microphone is lowered toward his expectant and famous nose ("Go ahead! Touch da nose! Just once! I'll sue da jernt for every...
...these rights," concluded the President, "spell security. . . . True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence." Some druggists on Capitol Hill thought the handwriting on the prescription seemed strangely familiar-identical, in fact, with that of the late Dr. New Deal. Perhaps, like the author of Sherlock Holmes, the old fellow's creator might feel that popular demand required at least temporary resuscitation...
Ralph misstepped first: he moved directly from Columbia Law School to the stage. Frank, then a boy soprano at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas Church, later had one year of business administration at Cornell, a spell working for his father. He tried cowpunching in New Mexico, stoking coal on a tramp steamer, shooting professional pool. On March 11, 1914, he eloped from Manhattan to Hoboken with Alma Muller and "she's never left...