Word: ff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ff Apparently intrigued by the freewheeling advantages of operating outside an established athletic conference-no unprofitable schedule commitments, no prying commissioners to police athletes' subsidies-the University of Washington's board of regents voted to follow in the steps of California, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. (TIME, Dec. 23) and desert the 43-year-old Pacific Coast Conference. With Stanford also slipping away fast, the P.C.C. has one clear course left: divide up its $250,000 bankroll and dissolve.
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...best for Shaw's frustrated crusade. To G.B.S. "Dr. Johnson's Alphabet" of 26 letters was as obsolete as Roman numerals. What was needed, he insisted, was an alphabet large enough to cover all the language's 40-odd basic sounds. Such absurdities as having f, ff, gh and ph represent one single sound would be eliminated. Phone could be spelt with three letters, Shaw with only two. "The saving," said Shaw, "would pay for half a dozen wars, if we could find nothing better to spend it on." Though Shaw never settled...
...promise. As it stands, it is simply a vehicle-a monster bulldozer-for Actress Hepburn, who bangs about in it with gusto. She has come far from the days when Dorothy Parker described her as running the gamut from A to B. In The Millionairess she runs it from ff to fff. The effect is often enjoyable and ultimately monotonous...
Ohlo: 57 FF, 242SS, 299 AQ, 371 CA, LG 450, NC 582, US 596, YY 3464; Oklahoma: 14528, 2-28346; Pennsylvania: 581B3, HEL8, GC97, 138PP, 0249K, 2509P, E7689; Rhode Island: S1795, 3499, G5415, N8689; South Carolina: D130783; Texas: LM 470, AH 2234, FD 9180; Vermont: EE463; Wyoming: 858327; Virginia: 809940; Washington: S5577U