Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Department store executives in the know have issued one caution this Christmas. If possible, don't guess her size. They've found from experience that men who persuade salesgirls to model their purchase "Because she's just your size" are apt to underestimate their lady's weight by a healthy...
Fisher also attacked the "Machiavellian atmosphere" of the HYRC. He referred to a "Cloak and Dagger Department" (headed by Arthur W. Bingham '51) which, he said, at various times had considered 1) wrecking the NSA, 2) packing the Student Council, 3) infiltrating into the Liberal Union, 4) smearing candidates as...
A Mad Lear. Copey had one great rival in the English department-George Lyman Kittredge. He was a stormy lecturer, now prancing across his dais like a mad Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took...
Upside-Down Paintings. Vienna-born Ned Ohrbach, an immigrant's son, started as a clerk, worked up to buyer for Ehrich Bros, department store. He founded Ohrbach's in 1923, a block from Manhattan's famed, price-cutting S. Klein's.
Foods. Although this year's harvest was the greatest in U.S. history, the Department of Agriculture set even higher production goals for many foods next year. Biggest boosts: milk up about 3%, chickens and turkeys 10%, sheep 7%, sweet potatoes 8%.