Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When has a chef or a cook ever ap peared on a British Honours list? Yet the man who cooks your food ... is as important as ... a dozen great painters, literateurs, or musicians...
...Christian Mission, most vigorous evangelistic onslaught on college youth in a generation, brought Dr. Jones and his dynamic, intensely personal message to a dozen State universities. Last week, looking weary from his labors, he sailed for Europe. Thence he will make a four-day airplane dash to Madras, where this month meets an international missionary conference of high import...
Thomas Bayne Wilson, former clerk and traveling auditor for the Southern Pacific Co., branched out nine years ago, became president of Pacific Greyhound Lines Inc. which he had merged from half-a-dozen motor transport companies. After nursing Pacific Greyhound through 1932 with a $412,960 profit, he was appointed Vice President and General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Co., boosted its business 50% between 1933 and 1937. Last week, to fill an old vacancy, he was elected board chairman of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which has long wanted directors with broad transport experience. Quiet, energetic Thomas Wilson...
...believe more good would be done for the state as a whole and for the college if the money used in hiring football coaches were used to improve the state's livestock," declared Scott. "We ought to be able to buy a dozen dandy bulls for the cost of our coaching staff...
Before the opening performance buxom Neapolitan Soprano Maria Caniglia was found crawling about the Met's splintery stage in search of bent nails. Reason: An old Neapolitan superstition that bent nails mean luck. She found a half dozen, toted them about with her while she sang the part of Desdemona in the season's opener, Otello. Thus equipped, Soprano Caniglia sang lustily, was lustily choked in the last act by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Otello) who finally covered her face with a pillow. The performance over, she had the ecstatic satisfaction (see cut) of being smothered again by flowers...