Word: alienating
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...concluded: "We must resist the attempt to get public money for such a competing school system and we must protect our democratic education again the selfish and alien philosophy represented by the parochial schools...
...felt like an alien when she came home three years.later to struggle in dutiful, unhappy competition with the belles of New York society. But when she was 19 her second cousin Franklin Roosevelt proposed marriage-a marriage approved by adults on both sides of the family. She rejoiced, as only a plain girl can, in a handsome husband, solemnly sure that the world was hers at last...
...made the long trek south to Cape Town, so that the white men at South Africa's tercentenary exposition this week could see the pygmies in the flesh. Only men and married women went along because, as any pygmy knows, a maiden who drinks water from alien springs will become sterile...
...long as our citizens call their tongue "English," they will suffer from a lingual inferiority complex. Good Americans will feel a certain compunction to speak good English. This is not good for Patriotism. Americanism cannot thrive when its very mode of communication is branded with an alien label. Before America Became Great, there may have been some who secretly wished that the colonies might some day return to the Empire, but these men have long since disappeared. Their lingual crutch should go with them...
...biggest prizes seized by the Office of Alien Property during the war was the German-owned Schering Corp. of New Jersey. Under Francis Cabell Brown, Government-appointed president and former corporation lawyer, chemical and drug sales steadily climbed from $2.8 million in 1942 to last year's $15.4 million. Earnings per share rose from 43? to $3.12. Schering was the second company to put cortisone on the market, has marketed new sulfa and penicillin products, holds a prominent place in the antihistamine field, has introduced several important new drugs, including "Dormison" (for insomnia), and "Prantal" (for peptic ulcers...