Word: alienating
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...speech of Yale is quite alien. For instance, they call their yard a "campus." Heywood Broun '10. "Some of My Best Friends Are Yale...
Sterling's agreements with I. G. Farben date back to the early '20s, after its predecessor had bought the Bayer patents (which belonged to a Farben predecessor) from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, but failed in a legal fight to extend them to Latin America. The agreement let Sterling make Farben products and sell them in Latin America, but only on commission (25%). Sterling processed these drugs (usually from German raw materials), had $10,000,000 worth of plant in Latin America, but the drugs bore Farben's names. The agreements, until last week, still...
...hearing Leon jumped to his feet, blurted that Dies was "not a responsible member of Congress." When Georgia's Edward Eugene Cox described him as "a man operating under the alias Leon Henderson," Leon angrily cited his family tree back to 1800 to prove that he was no alien with an Anglicized name. Winding up like a badly written comic opera, the hearings proved only that politics and economics cannot speak the same language, even in a crisis...
...years ago such ideas were wholly alien to the U.S. Government and most of its people. Now after two years of war, we live, even in our own land, in a changed world...
...migrés-"A large section of the German emigres [have] failed to realize the deep and irrevocable changes that have come over the German people in the course of the last ten years. . . . We have become the 'alien corn...