Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Institute of Modern Art celebrated the opening of its new building on Beacon Street by presenting a retrospective exhibition of the works of George Rouault, an artist whose genuine passion for color affords a channel through which a mystical insight into certain aspects of life can be expressed...
...President was really campaigning now-seven little speeches, one big one, a 14-hour day. Observers differed on how he was doing: some thought the crowds indicated Roosevelt victory; others were certain the turnout was not only far below 1936, but less than on off-year visits since. But if his audience had fallen off, Franklin Roosevelt had not. Only television could have shown the nation the relish, the skill of his performance before 22,000 screaming Democrats in the Garden, while 25,000 struggled for standing room in the streets outside. Again his best bits were the comic passages...
Main cause of diminution in the volume of British retail trade has been not so much German bombs as the result of British efforts to convert certain industries to war use and to export the largest possible quantity of goods. Dec. i was set as the deadline after which British retailers will be able to get no more silk stockings from British wholesalers. Result: this week every silk-lingerie counter in London was the scene of wild scrambles. Some shops set the limit at one dozen pairs to a customer...
...censorship betrayed a certain nervousness by establishing a "cable curfew" barring the transmission of any military news between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. (bombing hours...
...bypassing the Canal. The embargo involved 700 flasks of mercury (for making explosives), 14 sacks of molybdenum (for making steel alloys), 2,000 tons of fluor spar (for making aluminum), such oddments as 1,700 tons of flour, 5,000 drums of gasoline and oil. But the scrap and certain petroleum products which were "practically Government monopolies" were held...