Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governments invited Costa Rica to join them in doing away with passports for travel between their countries, using a Central American travel card instead. Costa Rica accepted, and Julio Acosta, Minister of Foreign Relations, signed with the Salvadoreans and started for Guatemala City. On his way he read Arevalo's speech, decided that "half-baked" had been aimed at his country. He returned to Costa Rica, leaving the cause of Central American union about where it was. It was the sort of thing that always seemed to keep the five states from getting together...
...Place Card. In Jackson, Miss., a theatergoer momentarily dropped out of a ticket line, wisely chalked a mark on a fellow standee's back to keep his place...
...normal" years. At the point where the overburdened facilities of University Hall and departments of instruction cannot spread themselves 'round any further veteran and freshmen must rely on native savvy and a few tips to prevent their hard-earned educations from being filed away in the card index, along with 2000 others...
...hopes he gets a chance to develop his team, polish it into working shape before too stiff competition comes along. Connecticut, opponent number one, has Walt Trojanowski, who scored 22 touchdowns last year, on its side; and Tufts and Princeton, second and third on the card, are both rated strongly in the East...
Prepared for almost everything, Miss Burbank dutifully sewed on the button. She wants it known, however, that her powers are not unlimited, that she cannot conjure up hotel rooms, orchestra seats at the theater, etc. Lately, her card index file of New York City, which includes the subhead "Girls with Problems," has come to the attention of one of the world's older and one of its newer institutions. Good old Thomas Cook & Son, travel agents extraordinary, have examined it as a prelude to setting up a similar guide to London, and the United Nations has already adopted...