Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average Briton would raise no flag on Vesting Day. As he woke in his frigid bedroom, shaved in icy water and ate a cold breakfast without the cheering "hot cuppa tea," he wanted his socialism translated into a fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal shortage were backfiring. He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply. He tried to warm his water with gas by using strange, traditional, Rube Goldberg contraptions called "geysers" (pronounced geezers). Result: a critical nationwide lowering...
...band in Kansas City. Count Basie played the piano. During the depression Julia went to work at $12 a week in Milton's Taproom. In the rowdy days of the Pendergast era, Julia sang ribald ditties like Two Old Maids in a Folding Bed and The Fuller Brush Man. But Kansas City is cleaner now, and so are Julia's lyrics. Now she does songs like Stormy Weather and Night...
...shall go further than this. Not only is there no Santa Claus; we also believe that Christmas should be abolished. Space does not permit a fuller catalogue of our reasons; let the expense, the inevitable annual deterioration of mental stability and the endless irritation of Bing Crosby singing "White Christmas" argue for themselves...
These are major changes. They are not the kind of changes that will set the-man-in-the-House shouting from the rooftops, for there has been no basic redefinition of Council power. Rather the changes have served the fuller interests of the Council--making it broader, more fully representative, more sensitive to the flickering of student opinion--without prohibiting, out of philosophical spite, the valuable contributions of appointed members...
...Bahn, William E. Boucher, Jr., William J. Brady, Jr., Dana F. Bresnahan, Robert D. Byrnes, John S. Carnes, Israel H. Chilcott, Jr., John S. Coolidge, Fred C. Donahoe, James B. Draper, Jr., Captain David J. Farrell, William R. W. Fitz, Benjamin H. Fortner, Bayard S. Forster, Melvin Freedman, Peter Fuller, Justin E. Gale, John C. Grady, Alexander L. Grant, Jr., Charles C. Graves, 3rd, William S. Harrison, Peter G. Harwood, George H. Hill, Ellis D. Hodge, Paul C. Kelly, Osmund O. Keiver, Jr., John C. Loos, Jr., Charles G. Loring, Jr., Leonard S. Lunder, Robert L. Matters, Willard H. McDaniel...