Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once sent a dead mouse through one of the pneumatic tubes connecting Chicago's four daily newspapers with the City News Bureau. Two minutes later, "City Press," which prides itself on its speedy service, shot back a box of rat poison. For live news, it moves even faster; on big stories it sometimes pops 2,000' words a minute through the 40-m.p.h. tubes...
...risk as much as possible, one out of every four seniors is planning to study for an advanced degree. Since "everybody's going to college now," the ordinary B.A. or B.S. no longer seems enough for getting along. Seniors are scornful of the Big Operator with his mounting blood pressure and his coronary thrombosis. "If '49 has a class bogy, it is ulcers...
...Golden, the Colorado School of Mines graduated its largest class (290 engineers) in style. Instead of a sheepskin, each graduate received a five-by-six-inch diploma of sterling silver. The text of each of the four-ounce plates had been photo-engraved, but President Ben H. Parker had to sign them all by hand. He used an electric vibrating scribe, a gadget that looked something like a fountain pen. Said President Parker: "There was nothing...
...Flemish old masters has stayed fairly steady for the last 20 years. But something was missing. Only 70 paintings, less than half of the once-great Schloss collection, had been recovered. The best of the collection, more than 100 canvases including a Frans Hals, a Pieter Bruegel and four Rembrandts were still missing...
...fickle Maria who made a desperate lover wait two hours the other night . . ." "This samba is for redhaired, snub-nosed Sabina, who lives by the watermill . . ." "This record is for cross-eyed Albert so that, listening, he will have to stop his evil gossiping for at least four minutes...