Word: dint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking of time rationing we (editorial "we") have been so busy that this column never did get written last week and was written this time only by dint of being able to juggle the books of the Pepper Corporation in one hand and juggling the typewriter keys with the other hand to produce this hodgepodge...
Saturday evening, May 22, will find the dormitories of Mellon Hall deserted of potential 2nd Lieutenants, for they will be found at the Parker House Roof dancing with WAVES, WAACS, and & few "civilians" in celebration of their graduation the following Monday morning. By dint of the grapevine, this promises to be a very "gay" affair...
...Evoke, to Develop. "The biggest job in the Army is to knock the complacency out of young officers and men, to make them realize that only by dint of their greatest effort, their utmost unselfishness, their infinite pains, and their capacity for self-sacrifice . . . will victory be attained. We must arouse in them the spirit of the offensive...
Jerry Levy, first string goalie of the '45 team, holds, a slight edge by dint of his experience, over Norm Cameron, who has been out of action for two years...
Virginia Bruce is still anemic despite her long rest from film activity, and what acting she does is equally pale. The leading man isn't worth notice, and Costello has, by dint of sheer bulk, crowded Abbott almost off the screen. Briefly, it's Abbott and Costello slightly worse than usual, funny or nauseating, according to your taste. Unconfirmed rumors from Universal's lot say that Dottie Lamour can have her old job back now, while June Priesser must step out and let the comedians go ahead with a new co-ed campus picture to be entitled, "Sweater...