Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period of the war. If we had been still living in London I think I should have accepted, knowing that everything would be done to make them happy; but the strain of separation on children is great, and what they may lose in formal education they will gain in the other kind of education that will come through living in a community where, at last, all must take their share in work and courage for a common end. In the meantime two are still at school in the South; one, just 14, writes from her school: "T. woke...
...Question: "Instead of waiting for the airplane builders to expand their facilities, why ries?" don't you Knudsen: use "We the would gain automobile facto nothing but floor space. [Automobiles have] wholly different engines, of different size, of different tooling. The buildings alone would...
...Hitler chooses to fight Russia before tackling the Western Hemisphere, the U. S. will gain a few months breathing spell, but at the probable expense of losing its best potential ally-the only one which could make him fight a war facing both ways. Japan's chief value to the U. S. would be negative, to keep her from aiding Germany. But Russia and Japan each have their own ambitions, and no deal made with either of them can be long relied on. At best the U. S. can hardly hope for more than to induce one of them...
...short, if Britain is beaten, there is a prospect that the only genuine security which the U. S. can gain is to set up its own right as mistress of the seas. Any other policy would expose the U. S.'s weak Latin-American flank. But in this policy the U. S. faces a multitude of difficulties. The question is not only Can it be done? but Is the U. S. willing...
...message, he smiled and said, "A little." A humanitarian ring in the 85 words confirmed this view: "We are engaged in a great national effort. ... It is our duty to see that the burden is equitably distributed according to ability to pay, so that a few do not gain from the sacrifices of the many...