Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women's camp (which was only 20 kilometers distant) took about three weeks, often being lost altogether. This anxiety, together with all the other ordeals, caused many to have a nervous breakdown. There were many different types of people among this large group of men. Jews and non-Jews were together&151;unlike German camps. There were Germans, Austrians, Spaniards and even Frenchmen of German descent who had served in the French army. Among this mixed crowd many disputes and quarrels arose; the bricks and stones were used as missiles. Lion Feuchtwanger was in our camp. There...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, had the approval even of such isolationists as Senators Vandenberg and Hiram Johnson, seemed destined to pass. Debatable was the bill's practical or potential value to the Finns. The money would have to be spent in the U. S., and for non-military products. And final sanctioning of the credit would be up to hard-headed Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, who is reported to have said that he did not think the Finns, who have already borrowed $10,000,000, were a good risk for more than an additional...
Jidda, chief port of Saudi Arabia, is too scorching hot for tourists, and death is traditionally the penalty for any non-Mohammedan who should venture inland from it to Holy Mecca, birthplace of Mohammed. Jidda harbor is protected by two miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles...
...acids." Put more plainly, its basic materials are coal, air, water. Last week nylon stockings, as handsome as silk, continued to be sold only in Wilmington (see p. 76). Meanwhile Du Pont announced that the nylon chemicals would be put to many other uses besides stockings: greaseproof paper containers, non-cracking patent leather, waterproof clothing, flexible window panes...
...teams played a three game non league caries at Lake Pincid during the Christmas holidays, the results being one victory for each sextet a 6 to 6 deadlock in the finale. Last year the Crimson earned a 4 to 3 win in Tigertown and a 5 to 2 decision in Cambridge, virtually a personal triumph for brilliant Austie Harding, who scarcely left the Ice all night...