Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidence of its contribution to the war effort, Standard pointed with pride to these chemical advances which stem from its relations with I.G. since...
Unless the section of the Red Army backing slowly into the Caucasus could use the mountains as anchors to stem the Nazi tide, Russia would lose 60% of her oil and all Lend-Lease aid that now comes from south of the Caucasus...
...city, in the rooming-house and Negro district. . . . High rates tend to follow river valleys." In a riverside district of Peoria, Ill., insanity is nine times as frequent as in another district on the bluffs. In Chicago, where the Chicago River turns to form a Y whose stem flows into Lake Michigan, the maximum concentration of insanity exactly coincides with this...
...noon, bombers and torpedo-planes from U.S. carriers went into battle. Said a naval flyer: "Ten minutes later the three carriers were blazing from stem to stern." At about the same time, the Army bombers also resumed the attack, after refueling on Midway's undamaged airfield...
...Stems. In Washington, Mrs. Bruce Baird, wife of a banker, got the better of the silk shortage. Whenever a stocking went to pieces she embroidered a flower on the hole, a stem down...