Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smoker Committee needed publicity and the Sportsman's and Boat Show needed publicity. The Managing Editor gave us the assignment and subway fare to Mechanics Hall. The handout, in the best public relations tradition, oozed: "Lovely Ann Curtis, the Olympic swim star, currently appearing at the etc, etc, faces a seathing denunciation at the hands of those vocal undergrads of Harvard if she doesn't accept their bid to the Freshman Smoker. The difficulty began when Ann and her famous Olympic partner, Adolph Kiefer, agreed to perform at the Yale..."You get the angle...
...pressagent who figured there was more than one way to give a Sunday supplement a Sunday punch. The Weekly had been weaned (by the late Morrill Goddard) on a formula of blood and sexy scandals. This Week's Editor William I. (for Ichabod) Nichols prescribed a blander fare: so-so fiction, fashions, features, cartoons. For roughage he added articles on such subjects as home-buying, legislators' pay, sex education...
...problem is not a simple one. For instance, many water creatures, from bacteria to mollusks and fish, have the bad habit of concentrating certain elements, including their radioactive isotopes, in their bodies. They are not damaged by them, but the man who eats them may not fare as well. Fish market inspectors of the future may have to deal with shipments of "hot" clams. So far, the AEC has not recommended Geiger counters for the family refrigerator...
...team's first test sans Louria and Ray comes up five days after spring registration. It brings Army's traditionally strong wrestlers to town and will be an extremely important match, for it will give Jordan some idea of how his weakened forces will fare against opposition--Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Yale...
Money Savers. To compete with railroads, airlines have also cut prices as much as 25% on "excursion," "tourist," and "family fare" rates. For two months Capital Airlines has flown an experimental nighttime "coach" service between New York and Chicago in DC-48, without meals, pillows, blankets, extra stewardesses of other costly incidentals. The fare: $29.60 (v. $44.10 on regular flights, and rail coach fare of $27.30). With passenger loads up to a good average of 77% of capacity, the coach planes so far have netted Capital a good profit. Similar coach services were being planned or flown by TWA (between...