Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Bernard Shaw celebrated his 88th birthday with advice on How to Care for Babies. In the London Times he compared the late Kaiserin Augusta's model Berlin nursery with shanty homes in Ireland's Connemara: "Under the ideal Berlin conditions the infants died like flies while in...
For Joseph stood between two cultures-the crumbling, terrifying, brilliant, polytheistic life of the Egyptians, and the simple, severe, shepherd's culture of the monotheistic Jews. His mind was filled with the ceaseless introspective poetry of comparison and analogy, prophecy and symbolism. He thought about the story of the...
Manhattan warehouses bulge with a three-year supply of pepper, whereas normally U.S. pepper stocks were never larger than a three-month supply. But the shrewd Manhattan pepper importers, foreseeing that a war with Japan would shut off imports, and taking advantage of low pepper prices, bought and bought, before...
North Carolina has 25 votes at the G.O.P. convention. Whereas Wendell Willkie had worked hard for only six votes in New Hampshire, Tom Dewey now apparently had plucked off 25 votes without seeming effort. With a neat bit of stagecraft timing, Joe Hanley, Dewey's faithful Lieutenant Governor, turned...
British naval officers have noticed only one change in German submariners captured recently. While there are exceptions (see cut) most are polite, whereas men taken early in the war were insufferably arrogant. But they are still volunteers, still capable seamen, still devout and stubborn Nazis.