Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually, however, Bell got to know his way around and people started to talk. One afternoon he was talking to Costello's attorney in his office when Costello, who had been out of town, walked in. After the introduction the gambler said: "What's this TIME? It's the one with the red border...
Next morning, Harry Truman waited around to see if the Shah would join him in his morning constitutional. The Shah was not used to the President's early hours, but he was up in time to accept a specially built 30-06 hunting rifle with a silver butt-plate engraved: "From the President to the Shahinshah of Iran." Said the President : "A very earnest and sincere young...
...Several schools get around the fair trade requirements and provide a good saving for their students on books used in school courses," Wyant said last night. "I want to find how they get around the various problems involved, and what discounts they got from publishers." He sent the questionnaires through the College's National Student Association chapter to various other NSA member schools...
...Council member admitted that he is stymied right now, because he has the problem of local book stores, which have "grown up around the College and depend on it," and also he doesn't know whether publishers will serve him if he sells their products below the established list price...
...feel that the present football policy at Harvard is unsound, for both financial and prestige reasons. If the administration continues its present policies, we will merely continue to pile up $100,000 deficits and losses to powerhouse teams around the country...