Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposed to get five months' paid vacation a year. The House was in a mood to go home. In fact, dozens of members had already gone home. It was necessary to ask the other house's permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick around and help clear up the snarl of bills still wedged tight in conference committee. Then, Senators began arguing among themselves about responsibility for their own delays...
Mead Makers Ltd., a Gulval firm, is now brewing mead in steam-heated vats at the rate of 300,000 bottles a year. The firm is already shipping some mead to Bermuda; Mexico has given the largest single order so far (5,000). U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
...perennial search for something to head off or cure the common cold, two doctors at the Permanente Foundation Hospital in Oakland, Calif, (established in 1942 by Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser) gave twice-daily doses of penicillin to almost 1,500 volunteers. An equal number, serving as controls, were given chalk pills...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the hair of both twins had been styled and set by a professional hairdresser, after one had given herself a home wave. Chicago's Toni Co., maker of home permanent wave kits, will restyle its advertising...
...time the orchestra got to the last full-band chords, Composer Gillis, a man who knows how to use every bleep, boom and buzz in an orchestra with a light touch, had given them just about everything in music but Toscanini. Said grinning Conductor Dorati, mopping his perspiring brow: "Great...