Word: alienating
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...salient point about China's coming democracy," continued the Oriental geographer," is that in China for long ages past sound historical and philosophical foundations have already been laid. The doctrines of historical materialism and class struggle are not only alien but also repugnant to the Chinese mind...
Raissa Irene Berkman Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S.-born Communist Earl Browder, finally became a legitimate alien immigrant eligible for U.S. citizenship, thus ending a four-year tug of technicalities over her illegal entry from Canada in 1933. The benevolent cooperation of immigration and consular officials ended her long dispute over her deportation (never enforced) by allowing her to re-enter the U.S. from Canada with a legally stamped visa...
...which comes from California's Mojave Desert. The companies allegedly had kept prices skyhigh, had eliminated competition, and had hampered the war effort seriously. The antitrust action further charged that American Potash & Chemical was secretly owned by Germans, through a Netherlands dummy company, until October 1942 when the Alien Property Custodian took over...
...people of Maine must have been extraordinarily impatient if, as you state, they founded Bowdoin (in 1794) because they "tired of sending their young men to alien . . . Amherst" (organized in 1821 JOHN S. SMITH Washington...
Mother of Celebrities. Bowdoin was chartered when the people of the District of Maine (then part of Massachusetts) tired of sending their young men to alien Harvard and Amherst. The college was named for Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin, whose son gave it gifts in cash and kind. Bowdoin in turn gave the Union proportionately more Civil Warriors than any other U.S. college and has produced more celebrities per square inch of campus than any rival. Among the celebrities was Longfellow's '25 classmate, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who, at an annual tuition-and-room cost of $34, highlighted four rowdy...