Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present Nazi rulers know that their people once bitten are twice shy. If Germans ever find their marks are worthless the Nazi regime may not long survive. So the Nazi Government, which has also run up an internal debt that it can scarcely hope to repay, this time has done so by forced loans and a thousand other expedients, but not by printing money. And yet Germans are beginning to have doubts about their money...
...What are we to do to win and if possible, shorten this war? We must save; we must control imports; we must do without commodities that are not necessary; we must, if required, ration them in order that all may share and share alike." [Applause.] Mr. Chamberlain called the present stage of hostilities the "quiet of the calm before the storm," warned that Britain "shall have to face a phase of this war much grimmer than anything we have seen yet." He wound up: "In his recent message to the Pope, the President of the United States declared that only...
...years ago a tall, bald, shambling magazine editor, Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, got a yen to enter that select company. What he had in mind was a new kind of paper: an evening picture-paper with not so big a page as present tabloids, with news digested and departmentalized somewhat as in TIME. Selling such a paper at 5? a copy, Editor Ingersoll figured he could break even with a circulation of 190,000, but it would cost $1,500,000 to launch his daily...
...present day tune at the height of its acceptance is perfection for the day. It may not be lasting, but at any given moment, the number one tune is what most people consider perfection. All of the bands today spend their time giving different renditions of the wanings and waxings of the claimants to perfection. Since we feel that we can't achieve this perfection and achieve anything lasting, we strive to achieve its opposite--"imperfection" and play strictly original things that must be judged on their own merits. Imperfection is the only relief to perfection, and that...
...Duke's band has broken all records at the Southland during his present stay--a sign that he is finally stepping from the pedestal he has always occupied in the musical world to the attention of the dance public as a whole...