Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics, the Washington correspondents, have never agreed about its social significance, but they are sure that the guy in the right-hand corner is making soft talk to the bare foot woman in pink. One day last week a big crowd of them stood brooding before it when a side door opened and into the room walked Frank Murphy, elevated that morning from the Attorney-Generalship to the Supreme Court of the United States...
Sound equipment was plugged in; flash light bulbs exploded; in painful embarrassment the new Justice went through a little act for the cameramen. He fumbled when he picked up a pencil; his assistant standing behind him reached out on one side for a piece of paper while Mr. Murphy held it out in the other direction; Mr. Murphy's voice was almost inaudible as he explained that he was sad at leaving the Attorney-Generalship, praised his successor, and said of the Jackson Day dinner: "Incidentally, I'm not supposed to talk about politics." In a few minutes...
...alarmingly, suddenly cut a gash in her planking. In rushed the water. There was nothing to do but abandon ship and take to the rowboat. Mournfully the professor watched his dream of ten years, his $100,000 yacht on which he had no insurance, flop top-heavily on its side. Next thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked. The three men bailed, shouted for help, signaled with a flashlight. They drifted close under the walls...
...positive program for peace adopted unanimously by the recent Convention of the American Student Union at Madison. This program recognizes that powerful forces have already begun to drag us toward war on both the Eastern and Western fronts and specifically condemns all attempts to tie us to one side in the European struggle. Instead of jumping on the band wagon of those forces interested in an anti-Soviet war, the ASU set forth a progressive program for "a forward-moving democracy...
...balance of power concept in world politics and the part in the center of the Saviour's hair in da Vinci's painting, "The Last Supper." He said that the part is the center from which the picture's symmetry was laid out and from this the left side is seen to balance the right. This feeling for balance and symmetry, he added, was also reflected in the manner in which groups of nations were weighed against one another and the way that their powers were balanced. Dr. Vagts, however, didn't look at the painting carefully...