Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meals & Mopes. The domain he inherited includes five high schools, eleven junior high schools, 63 elementary schools, a special school for crippled children. It is a $40 million domain that comes alive each morning with the shouts and cries of 56,000 schoolchildren flooding through its classrooms. On the surface it is a casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle...
...action was taken in Illinois three months ago - nothing. A.B.C.'s 1950 national championship, the World Series of bowling which may draw as many as 30,000 entrants, was set for Columbus, Ohio in April. A.B.C. seemed safe so far. But with A.B.C. facing the fact of diminishing domain elsewhere, it would probably be only a matter of time before it got into line or out of business...