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Word: baseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step breaks down the determination to "draw the line" and inexorably we shall move into total war. Inexorably? Let us hope not. Remember that in aiding England, essentially we are seeking to purchase security from a Nazi menace, and to purchase it at the best price. Call this a base and mercenary interpretation of a crusade for enduring peace and freedom, but do not forget that we may be asked to pay in the currency of blood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASTERS OF OUR DESTINY | 9/26/1940 | See Source »

...criticisms of conscription as a "base on balls for our own fascists" is concerned, I find myself in substantial agreement. But where Marx seeks to repeal the base on balls, I think it is more practical to try to hold the "undemocrats" scoreless from this point on. That is, I would concentrate our efforts on the issues of administration of the conscription act, industrial control, civil liberties, social reform through taxation, and so forth. The Prohibition experience would indicate that you cannot repeal a law immediately after its passage, but only after it has proved a failure. Liberal energies...

Author: By Allan D. Ecker, | Title: LATEST "PROGRESSIVE" DEALS CHIEFLY WITH U. S. DEFENSE | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

...might herself have an air force that would dominate the Continent as her fleet dominated the seas for generations, he argues that unless England and its fleet, hence the U. S., is to live perpetually under the threat of German air power, that power must be destroyed at its base: Germany must be invaded and conquered. This job the British Empire is no longer strong or rich enough to do. At this point the cat pops out of the bag. Pleader Brailsford declares that only the U. S. can reconquer Nazified Europe-and that means another U. S. expeditionary force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Appeal for Aid | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...over .320 this year for Little Rock, a team which features night baseball, and continued to field in big league fashion at first base. He has been used in three Red Sox games so far, is batting .444 and fielding 1.000. Lupien will be given a thorough tryout with Boston next spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUPIEN BREAKS INTO BOSTON LINEUP: BATS, FIELDS WELL | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...unique feature of this new Jewett Reflector telescope is to be found in the manner in which it is housed; the entire building revolving on a special concrete base. Usually only a top of turret or dome rotates on tracks supported by a non-rotating building. The Jewett Reflector rotating building is twelve-sided and is insulated with homosote. Construction was under the direct supervision of Dr. George Z. Dimitroff, superintendent of the Oak Ridge station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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