Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pomona College, where he was studying to follow his father into the pulpit. To earn his way, he wrapped bread in a bakery and did some preaching on the side. When Fred Waring filmed Varsity Show on the Pomona campus, Shaw's glee club got a bit part-and Shaw got a job tuning up lush arrangements of Moonlight on the Campus and Battle Hymn of the Republic for Waring in New York. On the side, he trained a glee club for Broadway's Billy Rose, set the swimmers' strokes to music at Billy's World...
Noble Experiment. International Harvester Co., which did its bit to stem inflation by cutting prices last March, had to raise them again. The rise in the cost of materials had put the manufacture of more than half of Harvester's industrial power products in the red. The 5% price boost would put most Harvester prices about 2% above the precut level...
...quizzes, thought Vag as he bounced down the Emerson steps, practiced a jump turn across the walk, and set off cross country toward Widener. One more class and two more quizzes-held your glass for more gin fizzes-vacation loomed just behind that Saturday section man and not one bit farther. Vag brightened inwardly, hastened his step, and almost hollered "Track" at the crowd blocking...
...peanuts or candy. The enterprise of this monkey named "Trader" was so successful that he nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader did not like); yellow chips were worthless...
...General Alexander Day Surles, 61, leathery, bowlegged ex-cavalryman who ran the Army's Bureau of Public Relations from 1941 to 1945; of a pulmonary ailment; in Washington. Tethered to the Pentagon after 34 years of service, mostly with tactical outfits, Old Horseman Day Surles champed at the bit all through World War II, did his creditable best with the vast, tape-tangled B.P.R., silently took the rap for many a public relations bungle by underlings and superiors...