Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing for the congregation...
...right; the trouble was with the behavior of some of the men who were covered by it. When the act's apparatus did not get them what they wanted, the brotherhoods simply threw it away and threatened to use force. In 1941, in 1943, in 1946 and again this year, the brotherhood leaders had gone through the act's elaborate process of negotiation, mediation, conciliation-and then rejected a presidential fact-finding board's recommendations and set a strike date...
...qualify for a bounty, a fisherman or fisherwoman must fish three months a year, catch 2,500 Ibs. of deep-sea fish and use a boat with at least a twelve-foot keel. The money is interest on Canada's share of the $5,500,000 the U.S. paid after the 1871 Treaty of Washington for rights to fish in British waters...
...future, a convention of resort operators and tourist officials decided in Lethbridge last week, Alberta would use the word "visitor" instead of the crassly commercial word "tourist...
...forget that you're artists . . . you're only the hands of the machine and you know there's nothing in America that can stand up against the machine. If you were 'Art Directors' . . . you would put the machine in its place . . . You all use your work for comfort. There's no beauty or truth in it ... What is there you really reverence? ... Is there anything in God's name you wouldn't exploit...