Word: forkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While men's colleges faced a great decision, women's colleges also began to realize last week that they had come to a fork in the road. Urging a national service act for women, the American Council on Education's President George Zook said: "It is clear that women students cannot expect to pursue college as usual while their brothers and male friends are rushed off. . . . Courses for women are going to be shortened and they are going to be directed toward preparation for specific types of war service. . . . These war jobs are going to appear...
...Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the fluently translating Missimo. At President Lin Sen's mansion Willkie sampled a succulent Chinese-French cuisine including poisson du Yangtze au bain Marie and champignons du Fukien á la volaille. Willkie tried chopsticks, but quickly fell back on knife & fork...
...Thru God's grace Mike and I are still together. Forded river near fork. . . . Spent last night in chute. Mike caught up. Spent night on hillside, rain starting at four, under small rock. . . . Rained early. Saw wallaby [a small kangaroo...
...packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof has capacity crowds nightly and bar business is 65% above last year. In Broadway's flashy, pink-satined Latin Quarter, soldiers and visiting firemen ogle a sexy two-hour show, fork over a smacking $25,000 weekly for the look...
Safety engineers, who must also see that a plant is well ventilated and cleaned, urge workers to use new industrial skin creams (e.g., Du Font's "Pro-Tek"), which have been concocted to guard the skin from irritating chemicals. Insurance companies, which often have to fork over for industrial dermatoses, also encourage their use. Sales have doubled in the last year, and girls leave aircraft plants with smooth hands, after degreasing plane parts all day. But most doctors sniff at these industrial cosmetics. They claim that cleanliness will do the same trick...