Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cries for help was David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41. Already famous as the ice cream champion of the University, Mitchell sprang to the rescue with a yell and a pair of gloves. A few minutes later he retired with his gloves torn to shreds and his hands lacerated in a dozen places, leaving the squirrel in complete triumph...
...thing is to be said in favor of the picture--the music by Cole Porter. But by listening to the radio for an evening, anyone is sure to hear "Rosalie" and "In The Still of the Night" at least a half dozen times...
...seasoned soul-winner at 25 is Rev. Uldine Utley, a dozen years ago the protegee of Manhattan's late, reforming Baptist John Roach Straton, and for the past two years a Methodist minister in good standing (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935). Small, blonde and decidedly the most comely of U. S. divines, Miss Utley has been called by newspapers the "Garbo of the Pulpit" and the "Terror of the Tabernacles"; by Dr. Straton the "Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." This reverend miss once declared: "If I were a man, I'd never marry a woman preacher...
...possibility that a boycott can prevent the sale of any great part of the silk hosiery turned out by U. S. manufacturers (42,000,000 dozen pairs in 1936) or throw the 90,000 workers in the industry out of a job seemed slim. About 65% of silk hosiery machines in operation can be converted to lisle or rayon production without much loss. Tide last week reported that during the last two months 55 manufacturers have begun to make lisle hosiery although only five did so before...
Managing Director Earl Constantine of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers finally issued a warning to his trade: a silk stocking boycott would hurt hosiery mills because lisle stockings wear four times as long as silk and 42,000.000 dozen pairs of silk stockings annually would shrink to ten or twelve million annual output if lisle were substituted...