Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students who use the athletic plant pay an added sum to the University, under the Provost's plan athletic costs become part of tuition. Every student "underwrites" the HAA equally. The Provost is following the strategy of the makers of innumerable chocolate bars, who, when inflation hit the cocoa bean, produced new bigger bars--at double the price...
...Rockne, which was our challenge to Ford. But Mr. Erskine was a year too early. He made the awful mistake of expanding in a dying market." Studebaker fell $21 million in debt, went into bankruptcy. President Erskine put a bullet through his heart, and Hoffman, Vance and Ashton Bean, head of Stude-baker-controlled White Motor Co., were made receivers of the company...
...Bean curd, vegetables and meat within...
...picture has good, straightforward, and above all, spontaneous dialogue. Unlike many prison pictures with cruel guards and an innocent prisoner, Hellgate does not try to make the prisoners seem long suffering, bean geste heroes...
...which he later hacked Mister Johnson, it was the story of an African girl bursting with savage life who tried her pagan best to be a Christian; the inevitable friction burnt her alive. In spite of its authentic glare and beat, the book sold badly and Gary "got no bean of royalty." The next year, a second book about Africa, An American Visitor, fared even worse. His first break came in 1936 when The African Witch was made a Book Society choice and earned him about ?700. In 1938 came Castle Corner, a long, slow-paced novel of Anglo-Irish...