Word: carded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning his first big fight in New York since he was banned in 1946 (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer), Roughhouse Rocky regained his old form as the best drawing card in fightdom. He will probably continue to be until the day he is foolhardy enough to fight a good man his own size-somebody like Sugar Ray Robinson...
...will work towards expansion of the purchase card system inaugurated last sprng and will encourage more American students to travel abroad under the Fulbrght Scholarship fund. Students are now members of the scholarship committee for the first time...
This year, Harvard's NSA chapter will emphasize projects benefiting a large per cent of the student body, in line with a national policy adopted at the convention. Regional projects will include the continuance and expansion of the purchase card plan-of the ten local merchants contacted, nine were highly satisfied with last year's results and intend to renew their affiliations; a national travel tour program similar to the international trips already sponsored; and reduced train and plane fares for students vacationing during the school year...
...last week, General Electric's big, genial President Charles E. Wilson returned to his office to find 50 red roses in a basket beside his desk. "My favorite flower," he murmured, thumbing through them for a card. When he found one, from a Chicago bank, he was obviously touched. "Why," said Wilson, "they aren't even customers of ours...
This B film, more or less successfully masquerading as an A-with-a-Cause, has certain virtues: though four-fifths of the footage consist of phosphorescent Christmas card night scenes produced through a new use of infrared film, the rest of it-a porridge-colored dawn landing of the immigrants and the bright dusty midday scenes around a desert village-is visually exciting...