Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talking. Said an employee in his London branch office: "The old man won't like it that his name is out. For 50 years he has worked on the principle that the less people know about him, the less trouble he will have." Oxford authorities felt the same way. They did not have all the cash in hand yet, and as one undergraduate cracked: "They sure don't want to get the old man in a huff and have him take the money back. That would be a tragedy...
...newspaper in New York City-"has been fulfilled." The Post Home News's circulation (350,000) was bigger than when she took over, and the newspaper (then losing $100,000 a year) was now reportedly breaking even. Friends suspected that there were other reasons: that Dorothy Thackrey somehow felt that the Post Home News had failed to gain real national influence; that she was tired and bored with the workaday job of editing. Whatever the reason, Post readers would probably be spared any more husband & wife arguments in print...
Natural childbirth, said Dr. Goodrich, is not completely painless; only about 2% of the 400 patients reported no pain at all. The majority felt some pain, which they were "quite willing to tolerate in view of the exaltation accompanying conscious delivery." Some drugs were used, too. Only 35% had their babies without any anesthesia or painkilling drugs ; about half the rest had small doses of Demerol or whiffs of nitrous oxide (dentistry's "laughing gas"). The mothers were told to ask for drugs if they felt they needed them. Only 12% were not fully conscious...
...despite some banal street interviews and the bumbling repetitions of some announcers, TV could boast that it had finally caught a moment of history just as it happened. Ten million televiewers from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi felt that they had truly been there with Washington's cheering thousands...
...preferred stocks in five issues. The biggest: $20.4 million worth of Bethlehem Steel common, $8.1 million worth of Philadelphia's prosperous, long closely held Rohm & Haas 'chemical works.* Wall Streeters, who had long been telling one another that risk capital was all but dead, thought that they felt a stronger pulse...