Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them suddenly quit their machines, bowled past a few protesting foremen, paraded through the shops and streets with placards reading: "We're for George F."; "George F. Can't Be Wrong"; "Join Up-No Union." Protestant preachers, Catholic priests, Salvation Army chaplains had special prayer meetings for George F.'s recovery. Two days before election, word came that George F. was feeling better. Election day, after George F.'s workers had voted from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., NLRB tellers counted the ballots in the George F. Pavilion. That night good news went...
...Earmarked for direct relief two special tax funds (instead of taking relief catch-as-catch-can out of general funds...
...Netherlands Cabinet held a special meeting under old Premier Dirk Jan de Geer, decided that it would cancel all Army leaves. Since the usual Army leave is four days a month, this increased the Army's strength by some 10% to 400,000 men. The usually phlegmatic Dutch thought it necessary to point out that frozen canals were a very good defense indeed, since troops could be machine-gunned crossing them. It sounded like whistling in the dark...
...exactly, the Holy Ghost-is the principle of dialectical materialism, which in Marxist eyes explains the working of the world, the whole of human history. In the U. S. S. R. practically all the biological sciences, including anthropology, must conform to this principle. Lately Soviet scientists have made a special effort to straighten out the kinks of genetic theory (explanations of the heredity mechanism in the germ cells) along lines of Marxist rectitude (TIME, June...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...