Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Streams. The Census showed that certain rivers of migration, begun in the decade before last, still flowed on. The great exodus was from Oklahoma and the other drought-area States in the Great Plains tier (see map). Fastest-growing State was Florida, where sunshine, bathing beauties, vistas of white sand and palm trees, pleasure domes and gambling dens continued to lure the wealthy, the retired and the relaxed. Second in the rate of population growth was New Mexico, where discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down. Third fastest-growing State: California, another sun-worshipers' Mecca. Fastest...
...with the President, voted that the U. S. could not prepare for total war without seriously amending some of the New Deal's social legislation. But 58.1% thought that the U. S. standard of living could be kept at present levels during the rearmament period, while 39.7% were certain that it would have to be lowered...
...struck the water with some men, women and children in it and I could see the people struggling in the water. . . . We got into another lifeboat, but there was a terrible crowd aboard. The sea was very stormy and waves were coming over our lifeboat, and I was certain that I would die. . . . Suddenly one big wave, and the lifeboat tumbled over. I never swam in my life but I had to swim that time. I got to a lifeboat which was upside down and clung to it. ... Finally we were picked up by another lifeboat. . . . About 24 hours after...
...prison with no map or compass, but a little money and some cubes of chocolate in his pockets, and had eventually taken refuge at the bottom of a mine. It described and-with the exception of the age and the mustache, which was just a medal of not-quite-certain manhood-still does describe Winston Churchill...
...means certain last week that Adolf Hitler would conquer Great Britain before winter, or even that he would try. The Empire was more vulnerable. For the defense of the Isles Britain had drawn on the Empire's defenses; her life line was weak in many places. On one weak place, Egypt, Hitler's Axis partner was whittling already (see p. 27). Others looked equally tempting: Africa, land of gold and diamonds; the Near East, land of oil; even India, the Empire's slightly tarnished jewel...