Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just when colleges are scraping the bot tom of the private financial barrel, the Government will undertake a limited experiment in publicly financed higher education. Next autumn there may be another test for new 17-year-olds...
...gimlet-eyed, barrel-chested Coast Guard commander boarded the Streamliner in Los Angeles last week and left behind a list of legends that would do credit to the crustiest admiral. After two and a half years as the colorfully efficient guardian of the vital port of Los Angeles, 46-year-old Commander Frank David Higbee had a new assignment where he would undoubtedly originate more forecastle tales. With him he carried the thanks of Mayor Fletcher Bowron and a scroll from his enlisted men: "Just blow that whistle from Greenland's icy mountain to India's coral strand...
...year in which he is earning his income, the taxpayer doesn't know how much he will have to pay as taxes, and is therefore forced to pay out of current income. If in any year his earnings dwindle, the taxpayer is practically driven to don the proverbial barrel...
...Tank's Enemies. Most of the tanks knocked out in World War II have been victims of truck-drawn artillery. Such guns can be hidden in the earth until only the barrel shows, leaving no silhouette for the lumbering tanks to shoot...
Diver Ralph Buratti, barrel-chested Junior from New Brunswick, won the low board diving, but finished second from the higher board on Saturday night to Princeton's Connie Doran. Breast stroker Chuck Gantner, who butterflies all the way, was the main cog in the Scarlet's medley relay victory, and he edged Tiger Norm Zheutlin in the 200-yard breast stroke...