Word: benignancy
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Twaddle. Husky, benign Harry Twaddle read a prepared statement which painted a rosy picture of great progress against great handicaps, of war-timed mobilization plans adapted to a pre-war expansion which the Army had never expected. As of last week, said he, the Army had 470,000 Regulars (on three-year enlistments), 267,000 National Guardsmen (mobilized for one year), and 413,000 one-year draftees in training. Said General Twaddle...
...present receiving help in one form or another will not be left out. The part played by N.Y.A. finances will be that of trying to finish off the student-aid program of the T.S.E. and other benign agencies where they cannot help but fall short. Distributed wholly at the discretion of the University and with no chance of being cut off at its Washington source by party politics or anything else, Harvard's N.Y.A. money will serve a worthy cause. After five years of doubtful darkness, the Corporation has snatched at a glimmer of light for the problem of needy...
...Schnedecker Jr. evidently thinks that Hitler is a modern Messiah, who will bring all people under his benign rule...
...read in Afrikaans. A hangover from this emotional bender was the growth of the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Fireguard), an Afrikaans cultural organization specializing in swastika armbands, military training, bombings of buildings and rail ways, beating up British soldiers. Leading "Peace Parades" last spring, General Hertzog found himself a benign and unwilling front man for local fascist extremists...
...chief studies have been on benign giant-cell tumors; radiographic findings in pericarditis with effusion; endothelial mycolma; congenital idiopathic enlargement of the heart; primary tumors and massive collapse of the lung; and carcinoma of the breast...