Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a 14-man entry-list already posted, the University swimming championship, scheduled for Monday at 3:30 o'clock, will probably fill all available lanes in the Indoor Athletic Building pool, coach Bill Brooks announced yesterday...
...once. The sex angle is always a good thing to start with, but that would only make things hotter, and no one would want that, would he? Another sure fire eye-catcher would be, "Hot enough for you?" This, however, is too short. If the ed is to fill the column it must be padded a little here and there, and the beginning is the best place to do it--before the reader has had time to finish his first cup of coffee and get his eyes fully open...
...editor is going to be guilty sometimes of bad and muddy writing. He must sometimes beat a hasty retreat into trivia if he wants to get home to dinner. If he confuses himself with the editorial staff of the New York Times, he is going to fill his page with half-baked opinions...
...revival of the Register was undertaken chiefly to fill the gap left last week when the more elaborate Red Book was cancelled because of financial insecurity. The new venture will be without advertising and will appear during the first week in December...
Little pitchers not only have big ears, but they fill up faster than grownups think they do. At least, so says Robert H. Seashore, Northwestern University psychologist. After testing vocabularies of Illinois public-school children for more than six years, he is convinced that the average first-grader knows about ten times as many words as he is supposed...