Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost no state funds are appropriated specifically to cope with alcoholism...
...hand (hanging) ; in his cell at Broadmoor Insane Asylum, England. Professor of phonetics at London University, longtime linguistics adviser to the British Broadcasting Corp., he was committed to the asylum in 1941 after murdering his concert violinist wife, Elsie Owen. He explained to police: "I could not cope with my work. Rather than expect her to face the bleak future, I decided she should...
...suggest that you look to the family discipline, since the Army or the factories sooner or later inherit the children of the nation and have to cope with the type of discipline or lack of discipline that results from their home and school life." Gadgets & Vitamins. "We have had great stadiums, a vast continent with lots of elbow room, and schools with acres of playgrounds. . . . We have advertised vitamins and health pills and laborsaving gadgets and all sorts of substitutes for good, clean, arduous, energetic, muscle-building and character-building human endeavor...
Only Page-two men wanted are hot "Jazz-Informed critics who think they can cope with the Swing column...
...cope with the new money, grocery-men employ various devices: in Los Angeles a small store uses a cigar box with four compartments to sort out its stamps. In Atlanta another small grocer has his children work nights, and devotes all of Sunday to the job. In Philadelphia recently OPA failed to provide enough of the gummed sheets on which grocers are supposed to stick their ration coupons before turning them in to the wholesaler. As a result, salesmen of wholesaling houses came in with their pockets stuffed with ration coupons, dumped them into bushel baskets. The baskets were presented...