Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reorganized in 1946, the band started out on firm financial footing, with substantial contributions from Alumni, and income from sale of the Ivy League Album...
...most important diocese, where he succeeded Bishop Francis J. McConnell, another famed liberal. He has carried on McConnell's work. At the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, for example, he found no racial discrimination against patients but a rule excluding colored candidates from nursing school. After months of firm pressure from Oxnam, the hospital board repealed the rule...
...American who observed Juliana at The Hague. Congress of Europe (TIME, May 17) last week drew a word picture of the Princess listening to Winston Churchill: "Juliana sat leaning forward, her firm chin firmly planted in her firm hand, squinting a little, nodding a little from time to time as she followed with an obvious effort Churchill's not very difficult line of thought. Her mien was strikingly familiar: it recalled the American matron who had learned at Bryn Mawr that an active interest in public affairs was the duty of an educated, responsible woman...
...arrive later, and for them business does not get brisk until about 8 o'clock. Thereafter they are seldom without customers, who pinch and punch their fruit and vegetables and ask them to pull open the husks of sweet corn to make sure the kernels are full and firm...
Pitfall (Regal Films; United Artists) is the sort of melodrama in which an ordinary guy gets into extraordinary trouble. The guy (Dick Powell), a claims adjuster for an insurance firm, is a happy homebody with a wife (Jane Wyatt) and child (Jimmy Hunt). But duty requires Dick to investigate a Pitfall (Lizabeth Scott). He spends a fervid evening with her and even kisses her, right in front of the camera. This dalliance generates plot complications that put one man in the morgue and another in the hospital. As the picture ends, it is clear that Dick's wife...