Word: finds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although his charges failed to finish better than fourth in the Heptagonal meet Saturday, Coach Jaakko Mikkola could find no fault with his captain, as big Alex Northrop breezed through a 4; 16.5 mile to a meet record 40 yards ahead of a tired but valiantly sprinting Pete 'Bradley of the Tigers...
Readers Humphrey & Smith's contemporaries will not find their questions naïve. Once a fashionable word (about 1760) and used by boys behind the barn some 20 years ago, "hump" is seldom heard in a sexual sense today. In the magazine (For Men Only) that printed it (and was acquitted of obscenity by a New York City magistrate) the word was used as a noun meaning "prostitute": "I walked at night, asked every hump I passed if she knew a Louise...
...this argument. According to the President, previous spending programs had not "failed" but had rather been impeded by faulty business and economic methods. This time, said the President, means would be found to prevent unabsorbed inventories and unjustifiably high prices from, in effect, "running away with the ball." To find means to prevent such a mishap was the prime purpose of the antimonopoly investigation he had already recommended for Congressional consideration...
...though it is probably inevitable that classes of hundreds cannot be known individually by their professors. There is no reason why the course assistants should hide themselves away in peaceful anonymity, however, for when students have questions to ask it is disconcerting and discouraging to genuine intellectual adventure to find that assistants are hard to track down. Another reason why the subordinates should be available is to go over examination papers with students who want to fine out the why and wherefore of their grades...
...there you don't find any of Cambridge with its everpresent carbon monoxide from cars, with the soot from factories close-by, with all the dirt in the streets and yard cops and pan-handlers, with slums lying close to luxurious red-brick houses, with parking spaces and no-parking places, with rearing trucks at night and clattering milk cans inevitable in the morning--all these things don't exist in that wonderful country where men are men and won't borrow from the government, where the country is green and the roads bad, where girls giggle in the streets...