Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much greater tendency to "come out of their shells," and join group activities and discussions; and far more chances presented themselves for above-average students to exercise leadership and responsibility. Both sides of the desk-teachers and students-profited by a much happier, more productive learning situation all around. Most important, the California project's gains were not won at the expense of traditional achievements...
...have had more cows' tails wrapped around my ears in fly time than any other Senator." boasted North Dakota's Milton Young. "I am sure that I have custom-threshed more hours than all the rest of the members put together, and no doubt spike-pitched more hours than any other Senator. I doubt if more than a dozen members of the Senate even know what spike-pitching means." Other Senators might indeed be less knowing than Wheat Farmer Young about custom-threshing and spike-pitching.-But they did know plenty about the wants and needs...
...fighters at 40,000 ft., that Navy fighters had made interceptions at that altitude by day and by night. Said Trapnell: "If you were to ride as an observer in a B-36 at 40,000 ft. during joint exercises, you would see Banshees diving and zooming all around you and making repeated gunnery attacks with a speed advantage of over 100 miles per hour...
After eleven months of divorce (following 14 months of marriage), Doris ("Richest Blonde in the World") Duke, 36. and second husband Porfirio ("Rubi") Rubirosa, 41, were going around together again. From Paris they arrived in Rome together, and a couple of days later breezed back to Paris...
...season's high point, the Yale game, the band had 80 members, but 35 of these didn't play. It was a good show, though. During the early winters of the organization's career, two dance bands were formed to travel around the country raising funds, and upon their success depended the band's life the next season...