Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like everyone else these days, college professors live longer. But that fact has not yet affected campus retirement rules. Somewhere between 65 and 68, no matter how chipper a Chips he may be, he steps down from his lecture platform and says goodbye to his students...
...around Washington the rumor went: wage and price controls would be here by Labor Day, and ration books were already being printed. The rumor even turned up at the President's press conference. May Craig, a chipper grandmother in a blue gingham dress and a correspondent for a string of Maine newspapers, asked Harry Truman about...
Swimmer Shirley May France, 17, sailed for Europe to take another crack at the English Channel. Trim and chipper, she was eating two steaks a day, weighed...
...chief reason for these chipper tidings from the 99-year-old company was a sweeping mechanization program, which has been pushed close to completion by lean, indefatigable President Walter Peter Marshall. Onetime executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, Inc., 49-year-old Walter Marshall went over to Western Union when the two companies were merged in 1943, stepped into the top executive job when President Joseph L. Egan died in December 1948. The company had already started mechanizing but it was Marshall who pushed through an $80 million appropriation to do it fast...
...bells of the Kremlin tolled the May Day hour (10 a.m.) as Joseph Stalin, in fawn uniform and chipper mood, stood on Lenin's marble tomb to take the adulation of a million marchers. His son, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, flew above Red Square in the van of the mightiest Soviet air show; there were 64 four-engined bombers where last November there had been 22. "Comrades," orated Chief of Staff General S. M. Shtemenko, on the rostrum beside Stalin, "a crisis is approaching in capitalist countries...