Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duller essentials: to meet the problems of new cantonments, vast new industries. Adequate housing must be established in little towns that were becoming seething centres of activity; health problems, which always follow the migrations of workers, must be dealt with; recreational facilities must be set up as counter-attractions to red-light districts...
Instead of its usual twin bill, the U.T. gives birth to triplets tonight. Rex Harrison's latest picture, even better than his muchly-touted "Night Train," is having a local premiere preparatory to a national publicity campaign. As in the earlier thriller, the plot concerns espionage and counter-espionage in World War II; but there's twice as much gunplay and the sets have been done on a more extravagant scale...
...life which was most comfortable to him. Every morning he left his dark bachelor's quarters in the Hampden on Plympton Street. It took him fifteen minutes to reach the Waldorf, what with the day's greetings to give and receive. Each morning he presented the Waldorf counter-girl with an apple, for which bribe he had his soft-boiled eggs brought to his table by a bus-boy. After breakfast he sat there, donned pince-nez, and scoured the Herald, pausing now and then to extract a paragraph with his pen-knife. About 9:15 he went...
...burden of his speech was urgent: "Never before in the history of our sea power have we had such need of many more ships and great numbers of men." Britain was at last wide awake to the immediate threat of the counter-blockade, had at last realized that this time the sea offensive was incomparably more dangerous than...
Another expense would be the construction of steam table units in the House dining rooms to serve as service counters at which the students would pick up their food. It might be possible to use the present kitchen counters for that purpose and to route the lines of students through one door in the kitchen, past the counter, and out the other door...