Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch the world recede into the distance at the rate of sixty miles an hour. It gave him a feeling of going places, a thrill that comes from the sense of speed and the feeling that one is utterly helpless to do anything about it save be carried along. He let himself down into the little camp chair on the platform, pulled his coat tightly around his knees to keep off the chill gusts of wind, and relaxed...
...block any such U. S. innovation, New York City's Metropolitan Funeral Directors Association, which does 75% of the community's mortuary business, promptly counteroffered to set up "a clinic for families in need of funeral services somewhat along the lines of medical clinics." "We want," declared the Association's president, John J. Flynn, "to keep the funeral service in such cases free from suspicion of pauper stigma such as might possibly be involved if the cases had to be handled through municipal mortuaries." To "cases" recommended by clergy or social service executives, these morticians would...
There is just so much room on a newsstand. The more space a magazine gets on that stand, the more copies it is likely to sell. Preferred position is along the front of the stand, and lately the heavy-selling picture magazines have been crowding into those limited positions, upsetting some established applecarts and setting the nerves of most magazine circulation people on edge. When conditions are toughest, not the least uncommon trade practice of many magazines is to send representatives from stand to stand, shoving competitors' products aside, bringing their own magazines to the forefront. These tactics...
...GETTING ALONG TOGETHER-Marjorie D. Kern-McBride...
...husband bawls her out before friends. She can ask him to tell his best story. If that does not work, she can answer back. Or she can become completely silent, or-"this is a blow between the eyes"-she can leave the room. Marjorie Kern's Getting Along Together is directed toward people who are growing old. She preaches the advantages of calm companionship over passionate misery...