Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington hotels were flooded with requests for rooms for the inauguration, but had as yet no cancellations from the Republicans...
...about Communist sabotage of their country's economy? What did they think of the mumbling impotence of coalition governments? Their answer was an overwhelming vote for Charles de Gaulle. Almost complete returns showed that of the 269 Council seats (another 51 will be filled by overseas candidates not yet elected), 99 went to Gaullists, 50 to Radical Socialists, and 48 to Socialists. The Communists, who controlled 85 votes in the outgoing Council, got only 16. Most of the M.R.P. electors voted for De Gaulle's R.P.F...
...There is nothing," averred Dr. Samuel Johnson, "which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern . . ." Last week he found agreement in an interesting quarter...
...textile mill in Bolton rearranged the machines in its cardroom, set workers to acquiring high skill at one job instead of puttering at several. Production per man-hour went up 39%, cost went down 10% a pound, and workers had more free time (for tea, etc.) on the job. Yet in the textile industry as a whole the man-hour output remains abysmally...
...bald, wizened little man whose greatest fear is that he won't live long enough to complete works he has started. Sixteen years ago he completed two acts of an opera, Moses and Aaron, but, he says, "I have not yet found the mood and power to compose the third act." Inspiration, he explains, "comes as mysteriously as hunger-and must follow the digestion of a lot of other things. One has to wait until one is called upon...