Word: dis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This latter race, in all probability, will see Navy and Penn, (both out for revenge), Princeton, (whose 12-inch defeat hardly relegates it to a second-class naval power), Yale, and Syracuse (which lost to Cornell by about the same dis- tance as did Harvard), all in contention against the Crimson...
Hattie's scripts are written in English, but she dishes them out in purest pidgin. Sample: ''Dis program we make fo' any kind people who like sing, kani kani pila [music], talk-story. Baby can try, school chiren can try and even if you makule [old] still okay. No need be sham...
Ulcers (gastric and duodenal) are pop ularly supposed to be an occupational dis ease of business executives, doctors, cab drivers, newsmen and other highstrung victims of a jittery civilization (TIME, Aug. 26, 1946). Doctors have noted that stomach ulcers are four times as common among men (who claim that they bear most of the strain of modern dog-eat-dog living) as among women...
...figures he can make a trade, a strictly no cash deal, before the season opens. Dis C1878 guy sez Yale gotta football player name a Wayne Johnson a couple a years ago from Harvard. Maybe he wants a trade a scholar, one of them chemistry fellas fer instance, fer a new fullback...
Merger for Rank. After all the fuss & feathers, the stockholders of J. Arthur Rank's Odeon Theaters Ltd. quietly ap proved his plan to buy his General Cinema Finance Corp., for ?1,100,000 (TIME, Dec. 22). The plan was carried, with no dis sent, by a show of hands at the stock holders' meeting. Said the London Times: "Nobody will now query the [deal's] propriety . . . since shareholders have been given ample opportunity of dissenting...