Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...That the Russians have a device on their parachutes that can shoot them up again if they do not like the place where they are about to land. This one appeared in the Manchester Guardian...
...relatively unimportant member of the Party's steering committee whose greatest service had been as exiled Lenin's go-between with colleagues in the 1913 Duma and as an assistant on the Petrograd Pravda. In numerous reorganizations of the governing structure which took place after the Bolsheviks came to power, Comrade Stalin always had a high post, but his work was also invariably overshadowed by the spectacular showings of Lenin, the Party's chairman, and Trotsky, the War Commissar...
...Canadian hamlet entitled to be proudest of the Dominion's expeditionary force is tiny Moosomin, Sask. That place is the birthplace of lean, dour, square-jawed Andrew George Latta ("Andy") McNaughton, 52, distinguished veteran of World War I (wounded at Ypres and Soissons), able artilleryman, chief of Canada's General Staff from 1929 to 1935, past president of Canada's National Research Council (his specialties: electricity and aeronautics), now leader of the first Canadian contingent and probable commander of all subsequent contingents...
...treatment and invention, Gulliver's Travels falls considerably short of Snow White, although reminiscent of it: the Prince and Princess (voices by Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross) suggested Snow White and her Prince. A character named Gabby sometimes suggested Dwarf Dopey, sometimes talked like Donald Duck. In place of Snow White's Seven Dwarfs, there were about 700 Lilliputians, funny in their own right. Prodigious are their engineering feats in moving Gulliver from the coast to their diminutive capital, graceful is the King's effort to dance with Gulliver's finger for a partner...
...furnishing of his mind was the gift to him of his Jewish heritage. . . . Jesus was a Jew - in blood, in loyalty, in mental outlook, in his criticism of Jewry, in his positive message. . . . Why should not Judaism do much more than [celebrate Christmas]? Why should it not make a place for Jesus in its own faith ... a place fully consistent with the nobler ideals of the Jewish tradition. ... If the religion of Judaism is good for Jews it is also good for Gentiles. ... If it is not good for Gentiles, it is not the best religion for Jews. To cherish...