Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article is admirable in that it has succeeded in presenting an orderly picture of a situation so complicated and hard to define. Generalizations are never in order under circumstances such as we find in the turmoil in which Germany finds itself today. I shall often refer to this issue as I am called upon to report on my work of the past two years...
...months after Pearl Harbor, it was described as "fireproof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The fire inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
Straus 11-32 is cursed, not by a ghost or a biddy, but by a telephone. David G. Black, Raymond S. Ettlinger, Michael J. Balborstam and John B. Stadler, all freshmen occupants of the room, refer to Mr. Bell's invention as "that damn thing...
...great dictator, whose spectacular personal rule has been replaced by Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey's capital, Ankara, as ya-vashington...
...Southern newspapers still follow a "double standard" in news. Says Race in the News: "Negroes . . . are almost always identified by race; whites . . . are not . . . Hardly ever does 'Mr.,' 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' precede the name of a Negro in the regular news columns . . . To refer to the widow of a lynched Negro as 'the Mallard woman' . . . is to deny her even the elemental dignity of grief . . . The Negro [in stories and pictures] is either presented as a menace, or he is ridiculed, patronized or applauded backhandedly...