Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless year-end contributions to churches and charities take an unexpected spurt, said Manhattan's Golden Rule Foundation this week, U.S. giving in 1948 will stand at an alltime low-only 1% of the national income. During the depressed '30s, said the foundation (which bases its reports on income-tax deductions), contributions averaged about...
...party faithful who showed up at Gandhinagar near Jaipur, the Congress session was an occasion for letting off steam, like a U.S. national political convention. Such relaxation is the exception rather than the rule in the Indian National Congress. The Congress is not only India's biggest political party (10½ million members), it is also the largest association in the world of people pledged to puritanism (Indian brand). To join, one must give up liquor. If he entertains political ambitions, he must give up wearing anything but khadi (handspun cloth), and content himself with a modest salary. Recently...
...Many Slide Rules. In addition, AEC was charged with failing to bring certain problems out of the physicist's slide-rule realm into the everyday trial-&-error world of engineers who might solve them and perhaps make good use of the results in other industries. For example, Committee Member Isaac Harter, director of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., got an idea from an atomic process that helped his company refine its continuous steel casting process...
...pretty much the rule with intimate revues, Lend an Ear is almost completely new faces and unknown names. But a number of these-as is pretty much the rule, too, when the revues are any good-may before long be pleasantly familiar. Among the others: Yvonne Adair, George Hall and Carol Channing, a large doll-eyed blonde who can be almost spectacularly funny...
Forced to move, they settled in nearby New Philadelphia. There Mrs. Marsh kept the family together by iron determination and a switch that was put to stinging use whenever any of the boys broke her cardinal rule: "Don't fight among yourselves. You must depend on each other." By mowing lawns, selling papers, and other odd jobs, and paying heed to "Mother," the Marshes made ends meet. In six years Mother Marsh bought a white frame house...