Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Selected Morticians, Inc.. a "professional group" with headquarters in Chicago, considered the atomic age and was appalled. The average undertaker has probably never seen a Geiger counter, but it was obvious that he would soon have to face the problem of radioactive "remains." In hushed tones, on tiptoe, and with the little finger sympathetically but gracefully extended, as always, Mortuary Science, the magazine of National Selected Morticians, Inc., prepared the "funeral-service profession" for the worst...
...tavern keeper is convinced that white and colored persons cannot sit side-by-side in a barroom without running amok, let him learn that his patrons do not share this feeling. Let him learn that sound business practices do not run counter to the type of idealism that gathers all races together in a Harvard classroom, on a Harvard athletic field, and in a Harvard House. If he is worried about fights, let him learn that the real fight comes not when students sit down to drink, but when a student cannot feel the freedom of joining his friends...
Archibald Davison, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, views the apparent flowering of musical interest "as the natural culmination of the tradition started here 40 years ago." Professor Davison emphasizes musical participation as much as counter transactions: "The Glee Club, Band, and Pierian Sodality have all reached new high-water marks," he says, "while the Music Club is also experiencing a high-interest cycle. All this leads people to take music courses and from there to move to record buying and the eventual building of private music libraries...
...especially that to U.S. bureau-men working in foreign countries like Mexico, where it can take three weeks of notarizing & counter-notarizing, witnessing & counter-witnessing just to rent a safe deposit box-but not with Rafael Delgado Lozano around. Rafael, known colloquially as Ralph, on 24 hours notice once arranged to have three divisions of the Mexican Army turned out to parade before the cameras of a MARCH OF TIME unit. That was a major miracle. He performs minor ones almost daily, disappearing into the jungles of official red tape to emerge with just the document a harried correspondent needs...
...familiarity with Mexican ways is perhaps best exemplified by his faith in the power of documents. Unimpressed by the ordinary correspondent's press card, he designed his own. It has space for his photograph, for numerous stamps -also of his own design-and for signatures and counter-signatures. The TIME bureau chief who first signed it was highly amused-until Ralph, on the strength of it, was ushered into a forbidden Mexican sanctuary one day while the bureau chief, lacking such elaborate identification, was thrown...