Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proper Name. In Los Angeles, the National Pest Control Association, in annual convention, voted to form a women's auxiliary to be known as the Ladybugs...
Occasionally the boots fit too well. The problem arises when the boot is too tightly fitted to the "last." When normal tugging fails to get the waxed "last" out of the finished boot, the hardwood form must painstakingly be chiseled out of the boot...
Besides the article on drama, two other pieces in the latest Advocate are good. The first is a welcome innovation in the form of a column--as yet untitled--by Geoffrey Bush. Far and away the best writer in this issue, Bush comments, New Yorker-style, on Archibald MacLeish and the Brattle Players with humor and imagination. His columns will be something to look for in future issues. the new department could and should supplant the self-conscious, posturing "Notes from 40 Bow Street" column, which provides vital data about the contributors, such as that they are enrolled...
...some cases entering a contest is not hard. The Bowdoin Prizes with $500 for first place calls for essays of not over 10,000 words on "any subject suitable for treatment in literary form." Students often hand in carbon copies of their honors theses for consideration...
Adams may produce a secret weapon in the form of fullback Guck Mahoney, who has announced that be may play tomorrow in spite of hour exams this week and lack of practice. Mahoney, former netfolk, Virginia, Naval Base star, is reputed to have thrown a 70-yard pass in his first intra-service game and can run 100-yards in ten seconds...