Word: earl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Naval Surgeon James Lind (1716-94) wondered enviously why sauerkraut-eating Dutch sailors got less scurvy than his tars on long voyages. He guessed right, recommended citrus fruits to supply what science years later called vitamin C. In 1795, Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...
Fellow Columnist Earl Wilson muttered plaintively in the New York Post: "Won't somebody swing at me? Anybody...
Members of the board, who will serve in office for a year starting at the close the resent term are: James Bell '41 1L, Albert Blinder 2L, Frank Boyce 1L, Robert Burton 1L, Earl Capehart 2L, Frank Cohen 1L, John Crane 2L, George Esser 1L, Joseph Flom 1L, John Hennessey 2L, Richard Homans 2L, Sander Johnson 2L, DeWitt Kirk 2L, Henry Lopez 2L, William Lowry 2L, Joseph McGrath '44 2L, John McMahon 1L, Frank Milligan 1L, T. L. P. O'Donnell '47, 1L, Milton Prigoff 1L, Royal S. Radin 2L, Jerome Rappaport '47 2L, Marvin Sparrow 1L, Paul Temple...
Randolph Churchill, lecturing son of Winston, was still lecturing in the U.S. after six months, but backed out of a Manhattan radio date this week. Said Randolph: when he agreed to criticize Communist Earl Browder's new book (War or Peace with Russia?) on the air, he hadn't realized "that an American Communist would also be taking part. ... I have long made it a rule to have no association whatever with American, Canadian, or British Communists." The American Communist who would take part: expelled Comrade Browder...
Even the National Association of Manufacturers, who had seen no danger of a wild price rise when the N.A.M. was axing OPA to death, was now worried. N.A.M. President Earl Bunting gloomed: "If the constant upward winding of the spiral continues, you'll see one of the most terrible busts this country ever...