Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wood chapel set, and a little cartoon man popped on-screen and chanted: "Alka-Seltzer, speedy Alka-Seltzer, bound to please you, take it for relief." In the "reception room" the announcer intoned: "Let me show you some of your wedding gifts: I'm sure you'll find nothing cooks like a Tappan range. This portable sewing machine features an automatic lubricator; for entertaining in the home you'll love using this Gallo rollcart. This Samsonite luggage is the first luggage made of magnesium." There was the "Underwood portable with the golden touch," HIS and HERS golf...
Many different ingredients can be used, and any intelligent teen-ager can find out what they are. Some of the mixtures, especially those containing chlorates and perchlorates, are extremely dangerous. Instead of burning gradually, they are apt to detonate like dynamite. Another dangerous compound is ammonium nitrate, which is sold as fertilizer. When mixed with certain other things, it is a violent explosive, and even by itself it should be treated with respect. The explosion of two shiploads of it wrecked Texas City in 1947, with a loss of 512 lives...
...poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative's dishonor." Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang some of his angriest cadences against anti-Catholic bigots, called them "equal to any crime requiring no physical courage...
...Communists seemed unenthusiastic about pressing the matter. Growled one comrade: "Politics in the piazzas, religion in the churches, peace for the dead." Meanwhile, throughout Red Emilia, farmers and workers, priests and parishioners were peering through weed-grown cemeteries to see what other instances of mortuary Marxism they could find. Most notable example, in addition to dozens of hammers and sickles: the well-known Italian version of the revolutionary slogan-"Push on, 0 people, push on to Redemption Day"-painted on a headstone...
...race, religion, color, or national origin of a person seeking admission" and declare it contrary to the law. But, before the state hails Harvard into court, or, waving a moral banner, brow-beats the University into submission, it should inquire into the real reasons for the "inquiry." It would find that the admissions office does use information from the photographs for discriminatory purposes. Discrimination, however, is in favor of the so-called underprivileged groups whose welfare was the original pretext for the FEPA...