Word: barse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nylons & Bars. He won his first-and only-world championship with the Yankees, whose purchase he engineered in 1945 at a bargain price of about $3,000,000. With fashion shows, free nylons, plushy bars and season tickets, he boosted attendance to a major-league peak of nearly 2,300...
¶ Members of the National Funeral Directors Association met in Boston for their 66th annual convention. Some exhibits of new equipment for the trade: the "Jewel Box" ("a gem of a casket") with a semicircular peephole and well-padded velvet and satin interior; the "Blickens 4 in 1 Positioner," an...
It was the last symphony concert of the season in the Dutch resort city of Scheveningen. Suddenly, during a Bach violin concerto, Soloist Sam Swaap started scrubbing his fiddle discordantly. Then he stopped cold for a dozen bars, holding his fiddle like a broken toy. After embarrassing moments, Swaap got...
The chief victims of these shenanigans were some 4,000 small U.S. candy manufacturers, many of whom have already cut the size of their chocolate bars, or upped the sales price from 5? to 6?. (The standard price for the "dollar" box of chocolates is now $1.25.) Unless the price...
Twenty-two fraternities form an oligarchy among an aristocracy, embracing one seventh of a total University population of approximately 7,000. Around them is now coalescing an incipient campus revolution. After a quarter of a century of laissez-faire administration, John L. Newcomb, president for a quarter of a century...