Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidentally, a much more widely used and better-known relative of the meter that you described in the article is the Gamma Ray Pocket Dosimeter. Latest models are no b.rger than a fountain pen. They are worn with a clip in the pocket, and indicate at any time during the day the total quantity of radiation that the wearer has absorbed and so whether it is safe to continue at work. (DR.) O. G. LANDSVERK Chicago...
...years, Philco Corp. has offered retail clerks special incentives to push its radios. Under Philco's latest "Sell'n Win" plan, the clerks accumulated points for each Philco set sold and high scorers got "spiffs" (prizes) ranging from fountain pens to electric washing machines. Recently Philco tried a new twist: salesmen were to get chances in a drawing for cash spiffs. When the U.S. Post Office objected that Philco was conducting a lottery, Philco canceled the drawing...
...Sikhs were the bankers) and no wholesaler from whom to buy more goods (for Hindus and Sikhs were the wholesalers). In Lahore, on the other hand, there is a corrupt buyers' paradise in looted goods. A refrigerator goes for 100 rupees ($30), a radio for 30. Parker "51" fountain pens, which used to sell for 60 rupees, now go for 5. "There is no economic exchange between Pakistan and India. India may survive this schism; Pakistan cannot. Almost its whole middle class, which was Hindu, has fled. The literacy rate, never higher than 9%, is now less than half...
Most of Charles Morgan's novels (The Fountain, Sparkenbroke, The Voyage) start out with a fair wind but eventually become becalmed on a sea of pretentious ideas. In The Judge's Story, Morgan shunts his characters around to illustrate a problem which is too big for them, and too big for his novel: ". . . The problem . . . of how, in the modern world, to remain civilized and free...
...Minister José Trujillo, worried about his bills after a revolution at home: "It costs $64 a day to live; it costs extra to laugh." Some delegates had derived their chief pleasure from watching (no admission charge) a red-white-&-blue ping-pong ball dancing atop a single-jet fountain in the hotel's vast (500-ft.-long) main corridor...