Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris was deserted except for the Boy Scouts, who were holding their first Jamboree (see EDUCATION) since the war, and the economists, who were trying to implement the "Marshall approach." The Scouts got on fine; their favorite pastime was the barter of their various treasures-scouting insignia, penknives, hats, fountain pens, a flute, a flock of horned toads (brought by delegates from Texas). Essentially, the economists from 16 European nations were engaged in the same activity...
...miles), he found that "the clouds were in the palm trees," lost precious time working a radio letdown procedure. Customs officials pestered him. "They wanted me to sign a thousand papers. I was taxiing out, and the customs man ran after me. I just tossed him a fountain...
...what is to be the last regular Summer Session--for some years at least. Hereafter the June to September ratrace will revert to its pre-war form in which it was chiefly an opportunity for spinsterish school marms to sip a few heady draughts from a traditionally masculine fountain of knowledge...
...scattered for a hundred yards, but there was nothing to suggest the great machine's shape or purpose. Rags of clothing, women's purses hung with shocking festiveness high in trees. For a hundred feet the ground was littered with charred shoes, letters, broken suitcases, and fountain pens...
...Pinnacle. For those fed up with ball-point pens, the Everlast Pen Co. has a new model. At one end is a ball pen, at the other end, a conventional fountain pen. The price...