Word: combe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each one of the Crimson poll-takers is assigned a certain street in a typical Boston district and is directed to interview as many residents of the street as possible. While some of the interviewers find themselves working in the South End, others comb through the most exclusive sections of Brookline and Chestnut Hill...
Said former Press Club President Charles Orville Gridley of the Denver Post: "Not all newspapermen are tousled-haired drunkards. Some of us are bald. Others actually comb their hair occasionally...
...remaining fourth-the majority of which Authors Mock & Larson were the first to comb-told a true story, fascinating both as history and as a civics lesson, doubly absorbing in relation to the present times...
...Morgenthau scurried home from vacation (in Scandinavia) by cutter to St. John's, Newfoundland, from there to Washington by plane, dashed to his office at 4 a.m. Within 48 hours he had called up a corps notable for a preponderance of 1) competent, stable businessmen, 2) economists who comb their hair...
...Monday, when London's schools opened for the fall term, its school children had a dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played all day in their schoolyards. When they tired of play, they broke into their knapsacks and ate their rations. The next three days were duller. London's school children just waited...