Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Berliner wears his old clothes, as the Parisian did. He pays two dollars for a cigaret, whereas the Parisian paid two dollars a pack. But the Parisian had no electricity during daylight all last winter. The Berliner has electricity during the day now. The underground is operating throughout most...
Most of what has been done so far to give the people some degree of customary recreation was begun by the Russians, continued by the British and Americans. The people, of course, prefer the Americans to the British and either to the Russians. The Americans are easier to get along...
Interesting. In Baltimore, Marine Pfc. Edmund Egbert, dutifully filling out a questionnaire, described his "most interesting" war experience: "The day I got hit I had an experience with a Jap whereas we went around and around a rock that is which led to bloodshed first his and then mine."
Some of the motormakers were not happy with these quotas. Ford, for one, complained that its quota this fall would provide only four cars for each of its dealers, whereas the fewer dealers of some smaller companies would have many more. This kind of quota trouble should not affect many...
Confiscation & Formality. There were also nice differences between the manner in which Göring and Hitler acquired some of their pieces. Whereas Hitler was in a position to confiscate something "in the name of the German state"-as, for example, the Rothschild collection in Paris -Goring preferred more formal...