Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salter insists on deliberate use of the word / as much as possible (his book is full of it). Mock modesty is all nonsense: "Express agreement when you are praised." Finally, "Don't plan. Live for the next minute . . . and tomorrow will take care of itself...
...idea. But they also agreed that U.S. investors would need more assurance that they wouldn't lose their shirts, or have them nationalized, in foreign ventures. This week, the Administration will try to provide some of that assurance. Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas said the Senate would take up a bill to empower the Export-Import Bank to guarantee foreign investments against 1) inability to convert profits into dollars, and 2) confiscation by foreign governments. Prospects were good for Senate approval...
...First Footman Charley Raunce. "I love 'im, I love 'im," she cries to Housemaid Kate (who is obsessed by the mere idea of being in love). "I could open the veins of my right arm for that man." But Footman Charley is momentarily too busy to take Edie seriously. He is hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom, waiting for the brief coma between life and death when he can safely order young Albert to pop in and swipe the old man's private notebooks, priceless treasures of information about how to work the castle pork...
...freshmen take on the Holy Cross freshmen Friday and Lamar expects them to be a team by then...
...School thus becomes the last branch of the University to extend its teaching facilities to women, and one of the last law schools in the country to take this action...