Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same situation holds in higher education, and "the higher, the worser," says Sargent. Worst of all U.S. universities, he insists, is his own alma mater, Harvard. "There is a hopelessness, a futility about life, a transparent pretense on the part of the fat boys, a feeling of despair on the part of those who still retain some consciousness of an honest past . . ." The reason: "The Corporation through its stooges" has gradually taken control of the administration and faculty alike...
Scores of such under-the-counter deals, which have run new car prices far above list prices, were dragged into the open last week by a House subcommittee in Washington. Detailing their new-car fever, buyers sheepishly told of 1) giving fat bonuses to dealers, 2) trading in old cars for much less than their value, and 3) paying out hundreds of dollars a car for unwanted accessories. To get new cars, four of them passed out "tips" of $500 to Robert Kearney and others in Washington's Kearney Oldsmobile Co.; four more shelled out from...
Pretty Picture. Eastman Kodak Co., which has had a profit-sharing plan since 1912, will cut a fat melon. It will distribute a wage dividend of around $13 million for 1948. The 51,500 eligible employees will receive 2.25% of the pay they got from the company from 1944 through 1948. Typical bonus...
...along at a comfortable 70 m.p.h. Before reaching Caracas - about 6,000 miles away - the field had to grind up the mighty Andes, race across Bolivia's lofty Altiplano (plateau), span desert land, plunge through an equatorial jungle. For the next 18 days, nobody heard much about the fat undertaker...
...most prolific was Charles Hamilton, whose works (under a score of bylines) are discussed today with an "affection verging on reverence." In 30 years Hamilton turned out a total of 45 million words of popular school stories, and made the name of his most famous character, Billy Bunter, the fat schoolboy, an Empire byword. Today, far into his 70s, Hamilton is still going strong, and his schoolboy stories are even read in Braille...