Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Island Railroad put a serious restriction on the card-playing commuter. It ordered its employees to forbid card players to hold places for a foursome when other passengers had no seats. That just about meant the end of rush-hour bridge and pinochle...
...Notre Dame team. He signs his letters with a great big friendly "Ed." In his office is an eight-foot bull whip; Ed likes to snap it around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really a card. His office door is always open, and to make perfectly sure that nobody gets any uppity ideas, Ed has had interoffice partitions torn down in Mutual's Manhattan offices...
...then received at 3 University Hall, and checked off. A team consisting of reader and copier enter the marks into the day pages, which record the term work of each undergraduate. From the original grade sheet, another copying team then transcribes the marks onto the student's permanent record card, which is checked against the day page...
...their special Argentine plane stepped ten A.F.L. leaders. They had come to Buenos Aires at the invitation of Juan Peron and his General Confederation of Workers (C.G.T.). They also intended to "survey" Argentine labor and to find out whether C.G.T.'s 800,000 card holders (about 60% of all Argentine workers) would make suitable members for a projected Inter-American Federation of Labor. At week's end, though one delegate complained of being taken on "Russian tours," all were still hopeful that the Inter-American Federation could be formed, as a rival to the left-wing Latin-American...
...which he bought last year for $160,000. Young ordinarily gets up at 6 a.m., goes for a quick dip in the surf, eats a quick breakfast, then quickly gets to work. His workroom is a second-floor bedroom facing the ocean. For a desk he uses two ordinary card tables, pulled together. Scorning ghostwriters, he writes all his own magazine articles, personally turns out copy...