Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mr. Winton: I appreciate that the tires are made of real rubber five-eighths of an inch thick. . . . But I might run over a railway spike or something else that would pierce even their tough resistance. In such case, what should I do? No one [in Vermont] can suggest how a repair might be effected...
...Dear Mr. Hall: In the highly improbable event that you will ever have a puncture . . . I can only suggest that you remove the wheel and send it back to our factory at Cleveland, Ohio...
Grossman & Allen suggest that refrigeration might even make it possible to restore an amputated arm or leg: "If a limb is fairly cleanly amputated, for example in a sawmill accident, there is a challenge to any nearby physician to pack such a part in ice and send it along with the patient to a hospital...
Americans must not allow animus over British colonial failures to suggest an attitude of plague-on-your-house in the case of the present crisis. The peace of Europe is too much intertwined with the productive capacity of the British Isles for Americans to be unconcerned when this industrial potential fritters away in the face of a winter storm. If the British cannot maintain their internal living-standard, British commitments everywhere must be sealed down proportionately, and the resulting vacuum must be filled according to the power line-up of 1947, with American troops and equipment. The withdrawal of British...
...from flat, featureless heads. Behind them the fuzzy skies were scratched with schoolboy diagrams of the constellations. But for fans of Rufino Tamayo the distorted figures seemed perfectly adjusted to their painted world, and the star-spangled night skies (a new element in Tamayo's work) seemed to suggest the era of science...