Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 60 persons X-rayed here last term may have tuberculosis, Dr. John P. Monks '24, physician at the Department of Hygiene and director of the drive said yesterday. Of the 7954 X-rays taken, 68 showed suspicious signs and possible symptoms...
Once in chronological order by chapters, his papers are set in type as a rough working draft. Galleys in hand, Churchill then dictates to secretaries who work in relays, filling in his transitions, anecdotes and explanations. Two are always on call for odd-hours dictation: in the 45-minute drive from London to Chartwell he may reel off 800 words of text. (But sometimes he labors for hours over a paragraph.) A man of enormous vitality, he may dictate as early as 8 a.m. and as late...
Management was determined to hold down wages, chiefly because it feared that it could no longer pass along such boosts to price-conscious consumers. Result: the third-round drive has made little progress to date. For the C.I.O., the hard-boiled meat-packers union had carried the ball-and run into a stone wall. After seven weeks of striking against Armour, Wilson, Swift and others, meat production was back up to 80% of normal...
...Continent, but the meals, plain though they might be, were reasonably priced (the government had pegged them at $1). In the provinces, food was better, and hotel prices (about $4 a night) lower. Britain's best lures: dollar tourists could buy clothes and get enough gasoline to drive 600 miles in two weeks, 1,000 in four...
...matched almost pitch for pitch by the performance of Lionel "The Toy" Train. Train's fluid drive alone geared his pitches up to an estimated speed of six zwoncuses a minute...