Word: cal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quota had been upped 50%. One big beet man exulted: "The beet-sugar industry will soon compete with sugar cane - without coolie labor!" The man who split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University of California. Professor Bainer had been teaching and tinkering at Cal's agricultural experiment station in Davis since 1929. One of his inventions is a ma chine for cracking English walnuts. On a conveyer belt, the nuts pass under a buzz saw which nicks holes in them; next they get an injection of oxygen and acetylene and move...
...Baby Nora Bayes. Her career happened to Judy even more chancily than her name. Late in 1934 she ended a solo engagement at Lake Tahoe's Cal-Neva Lodge, drove off with her mother but forgot her hatbox. When she went back to get it, a man asked her to sing for him. She was in a hurry, but graciously agreed. The man was Song Writer Lew Brown. With him was Agent Al Rosen. So impressed was Agent Rosen by Judy's singing that for fruitless months he lugged the child around the Hollywood studios while casting directors...
...true picture of Willkie, but what's wrong with having a man like that? Does the country want someone who doesn't know his own mind, who subordinates his conscience to party regularity, who is a well-disciplined stooge? Is the U.S. crying for another "Cautious Cal," another Harding? Said the Star: "Mr. Willkie could be a Bull Mooser, with one of the largest horn spreads of any moose on the loose. . . . He can't be Cal Coolidge...
When war is over and air tacticians begin to write, many airmen think the principle may be reduced to a pseudomathemati-cal proposition. ". . . Something," said one, "to the effect that the power of a fighter formation increases as the square or cube of the planes added...
...When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World War I. When Tutt asked Calvin Coolidge (whom he had known as a boy in Vermont) what it felt like to be President, Cal replied, after a Coolidge silence: "Well, you got to be mighty careful...