Word: flints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After two months of almost unbroken heat, the weather got hotter & hotter. A 40 & 8 band from Flint, Mich, marched in an American Legion parade in Detroit in diapers and baby hats. In big-city slums, thousands slept on rooftops and fire escapes. Then over the weekend, a cold air mass moved in at last and made life bearable...
...they raised $86,000 and launched TIME with a staff of 25, including, says Author Busch, "three muddleheaded debutantes." The question whether Hadden or Luce was responsible for TIME, Busch concludes, "was as idle as a controversy about whether it is the steel or the flint that produces fire. Both were responsible...
...addition to the Council and HLU donations, funds were secured from the class treasury, the '52 weekend last March, a sacrifice dinner in the Annex dormitories, Hillel, and Mrs. William W. Flint, house mother of Eliot Hall...
...gift from Mrs. William W. Flint, house mother of Eliot Hall, brought the freshmen to within $400 of their goal...
Imperfect Echo. To most citizens (and to many of the electors themselves) the whole archaic process seemed as absurd and awkward as starting a jet engine with an 18th Century flint and steel...