Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idaho's furrow-featured Senator William Edgar Borah is 74. At a Washington, D. C. luncheon, North Dakota's Senator Gerald Nye told Mrs. Borah he was pleased to see his colleague looking so fit for the neutrality fight (see p. 11). Said Mrs. Borah: "I told him so, too. I said to him, 'Bill, you look like Clark Gable.' And he said, 'Who's Clark Gable...
...fussbudget travelers who like to know where they are going and when they will get there, the North Atlantic last week was no fit place. In its third week the ground swell of World War II had tilted transatlantic shipping from confusion to chaos. Foreigners off to the wars could still obtain sailing permits from the U. S. State Department (providing they owed no income tax), but U. S. citizens who wanted to get to Europe had to unravel cat's-cradles of red tape. First requirement : a revalidated passport, good for six months at the most. These Secretary...
...survey of the munition potentialities of American industries, the War Department studied 20,000 plants and found 10,000 suitable for war production. Full cooperation was received from owners and staffs of the plants, many of them assuming heavy personal expense in aiding the investigation and making changes to fit the plants for war work...
...Senator Borah never "filibusters," hates the term and practice. This has not prevented him from talking extensively, day after day, on the same subject, if he saw fit. To kill time, filibusterers read cookbooks, tracts into the Congressional Record...
...hairdressers were hopping mad. When Mab Wilson, beauty editor of Vogue, addressed the New York State Hairdressers and Cosmetologists' convention last week on coiffure trends, her audience was fit to be tied. Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded...