Word: containers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agriculture Secretary Clinton B. Anderson is empowered by law (the Commodity Exchange Act) to keep an up-to-date list of trades and traders. The Republicans were sure that such a list would reveal the names of other important Democrats. They also knew, of course, that the list would contain the names of some important Republicans. But the committee could choose which big names to put under its investigative spotlight and which to keep in the background. They asked Anderson to produce the list...
...days there were scarcely more than ten bumpers on the whole playboard, perhaps one or two runways, and no bonuses. Total score and tripping every bumper were the only ways to rack up free games; but the new devices coming out of Chicago, the pinball capital of the world, contain never fewer than a dozen bumpers, a horde of runways and dropslots, and various moving parts. Harry Saxe, pinball pioneer and proprietor of Harry's Arcade Spa sighs, "Luck is so important in new machines that anyone can run up a creditable score...
...forced arbitrarily to divide his material into one hour periods. Such divisions tend to present the student with an unorganized mass of facts which are supposed to constitute a course. Evidence supporting this view can be drawn from the increased reliance on such crutches as "Hymarx," not because they contain the facts about a course, but because they present it as an integrated unit. This lack of organization can also be found at the next level--the field of concentration. A student takes a number of courses in a given field, which may cover an extremely broad area of knowledge...
These sweeping changes immediately doubled Law School enrollment, and registration figures continued growing year by year. This immediately created a new problem, for three rooms could no longer contain the activity of the would-be lawyers...
Among the Choral offerings will be: "Happy Lovers," the finale from Bach's Contain Number 207 and two Kentucky folksongs...