Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smaller retail businesses, it is easier to find evidence of recession in Cambridge. During the past year, total sales volume dropped six per cent, and many a small merchant is feeling the pinch for the first time since the war. New out-of-town highway stores have joined with buyer resistance in cutting down business...
...trying to walk in His steps, and kept getting his shins kicked for his pains. The reader meets him in his Paris parish in 1914 when he is 35 and hopeful, leaves him near-blind, buffeted but beatifically resigned just before Novelist Marshall lets his typewriter cool. In World War I he fights as an infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson that glory lasts but a day. A little while later he learns that the lovely little girl he befriended has become a prostitute. Novelist Marshall never lets the abbe get too far away from...
Even in the years after the Civil War, she continues, "the South's conscience hurt; always there were doubts and scruples." Had the South been able to make a clean break with its past, the evil might have been exorcised. But gnawed by memories of its defeat and provoked by harsh meddlers from the North, the South gradually transformed "the Negro question" into a fanatical folk bias, coloring its segregated religion, its sex attitudes, its every moment in life...
...Harvard Flying Club, active before the war, was reorganized on Friday night and has set a goal of 80 members before the end of the semester...
They used to tell you during the war it took 121 men on the ground to put one fighter plane in the air. Anyone who watches the behind the scenes activity at Soldiers Field on Saturday afternoons gets the same impression about fielding the Harvard football team...