Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pledge Card System...
Back to Broadway, five years after it ended a run of 835 performances there, went Three Men on a Horse last week. John Cecil Holm's and George Abbott's machine-made farce about a mousy little greeting-card writer whose knack for doping out the races gets him shanghaied by professionals, still has some laughs. And Actor William Lynn still makes the little guy appealing...
Professor Hubbard then explained that a large card filled with graders' comments was filed away for each report. At the end of the year, all eight cards are examined, the trend of the grades is noted, a frequency distribution of the grades is made and then the final mark is determined...
...concise statement, to the effect that The Harvard Cooperative Society dividend checks for 1941-42 are now ready, the rumors of the last five weeks, concerning those dividend checks have at last been verified. The checks may be claimed by presenting last year's official Coop membership card, or by showing a Bursar's card and filling out the supplied form...
...best thing in it is Victor Mature's exuberant portrayal of a heavyweight champion, a character compounded largely to Max Bear and Mature himself, with Saroyanish overtones. He hides buzzers in his palms when shaking hands, wears zoot suits, and is in general a card. Parodying himself with boyish abandon, Mature seems much more at home than in such heavy stuff as "One Million B.C." The main function of his co-star in the proceedings, Betty Grable, is, as always, to exude femininity. She does this unremittingly and well...