Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to Mr. Wright, I would like to suggest that he himself test the "practicability" of the 18th Century cup whose fine and slightly flaring rim was skillfully designed to check the escape of any drop of liquid down its side. A thick edge-especially one curving "inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides and even makes a ring in the saucer...
...meeting in Geneva's League of Nations Palace, that UNRRA cease operations in Europe by Oct. 1 for lack of cash, he stirred up a whirlwind of protest. Seven small nations, backed by Russia, pleaded that UNRRA aid be continued. Said Poland's Hilary Mine: "Those who suggest liquidation remind me of architects who, after great effort, build a house but stop short of a roof...
...would be unfair [to suggest] that all censorship is harmful or silly. It isn't. . . . Broadcasters quite understandably don't like to offend individuals, minority groups, religious orders, advertisers or members of other nationalities. . . . The intentions are good but the administration is ridiculous. . . . For example...
...committee then proceeded to read the present Student Council Constitution, as yet unratified by the student body, and to suggest changes in Article One, which concerns election proceedure...
...with the cooperation of 20-odd scientists, who appear in the picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more grim than any in Pompeii, the shadow of a human body, fire-stenciled into the pavement of Hiroshima...