Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...constitutes a claim of fundamental nature. The right to live includes the right to the soil, which alone gives life. For this claim peoples have even fought when a lack of wisdom threatened to interfere with their relationship, for they knew that even bloody sacrifices are better than the gradual dying off of nations. National unity was our first demand. Piece by piece and move by move this was realized...
...finally has come the gradual petering out of the much heralded invasion of Britain. That invasion was really broken in the great air battles, when Hitler tried to beat down our Air Force and open the way for his ships and his troops...
...best-run department in the business." Wrote Coster to Price, Waterhouse in 1936: ". . . Only in auditing [has] our company really got its money's worth." During the two years since McKesson's receivership and Coster's suicide, McKesson (under Trustee William Jed Wardall) has made gradual progress toward reorganization. One of Trustee Wardall's jobs is to recover assets; one source of recoveries was Coster's board of directors, who gave him enough votes of confidence to expose themselves to charges of negligence. To date, Trustee Wardall has negotiated out-of-court settlements with...
JOURNEY INTO FEAR-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). Wartime attempt of a Britisher, traveling in naval ordnance, to get home from Turkey. His gradual realization that he must be murdered, Turkish gestures of protection, changing plans, sudden death on his ship-this is ordinary intrigue material made into a knockout story...
...LaRoe declares that breast-feeding benefits mother as well as child. The gland tissue is healthier for doing its natural duty. If the baby is not nursed, the milk supply is troublesome to dry up; but if it is nursed, gradual weaning allows the milk to dwindle naturally. Moreover, breast-feeding stimulates contractions of the womb, which help it to return to its normal size and condition...