Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personally think our people are just a little bit disenchanted by a few items that have been chucked down their throats, and they are getting tired of them; and I think it would be a very good thing when the manufacturers wake up-and I am not going to name names-and begin to give the things we want instead of the things they think we want. Now that is what I think...
...funny porous thing Hanging by a bit of string Ever there from fall to spring Decorating Hollis Hall. Copey, Copey, don't you remember Where you left it last December Or have you become a member Of the never wash...
...dining hall was crowded and there was apparently no place else to sit so he slipped into the remaining empty chair at a corner table with an apologetic nod. He ate slowly and methodically, first a forkful of potatoes, then a bit of meat, then to string beans and then back to potatoes and start all over...
...last year's $31 million, which brought net profits of $1,452,000 (but still far behind the $162 million sales of its chief competitor. General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Aerojet-General Corp.). Though Thiokol's first-quarter sales are off a bit because some of its military contracts ran out and one plant was damaged by fire, Thiokol expects a 50% gain for all of calendar 1958. Reason: solid fuels are far simpler and safer to handle than liquid fuels that require a maze of tanks, valves and pumps, and they show the greatest promise...
...these days of high fashion and anti-recession spending, America expects every tasteful consumer to do his bit. Women, too, with their majority holding in the nation's private wealth, must cooperate if these campaigns are to succeed. Radcliffe, unfortunately, is not pulling...