Word: carded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the head resident of a Radcliffe dormitory tore open a plain envelope, addressed simply to "Bertram Hall." There was no explanatory letter inside, only a half dozen business cards labelled "Male Escort Bureau... escorts for all legitimate occasions." The card promised "confidential service" for a minimum...
...cases of ulcers. Eighteen of the men have been under psychoanalysis. ¶ At least on their own estimate, they are a restrained lot; 140 drink more than they did in college (Scotch is preferred to bourbon or gin), but 137 drink less, and 27 sit stoutly on the wagon. Card playing is preferred to sex as a favorite indoor sport (181 to 47), with squash (29) and table tennis (12) not too far behind. Three hardy Princetonians say they still play football, and one ropes calves for fun, but 131 like golf...
...discards any rooster whose offspring have high combs -a low comb means less slaughterhouse waste. Each half ounce that Vantress raises the dressing-out weight puts $30 million in the pockets of his customers. With an equal devotion to his job, Saglio recently decided that keeping chicken pedigrees in card indexes along with millions of measurement records involved the possibility of missing some choice genetic combinations. Now an IBM machine tabulates information on his birds. Tba machine decides which breeding rooster should go with which breeding...
...added that while the two may not be "card-carrying Communists," they are fully committed to the communist ideal...
Castro was moved to action by the slump in the tourist trade and the angry demands of 2,000 card dealers, croupiers, cashiers, musicians, barmen, waiters and entertainers, all thrown out of work by the revolution. Senorita Pastora NúÑez, director of National Savings and Housing Institute (formerly the government lottery), called in the casino owners and found them willing to meet her requirement of seven weeks' back pay for all employees. "I highly disapprove of the way you make a living," she lectured, "but we are reconsidering our earlier decision...