Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad to learn that at long last some of the half million Armenian exiles scattered all over the world are finding refuge in Soviet Armenia. But Soviet Armenia is only 10% of the Armenian homeland. Everyone knows that from Bible times till World War I, Mt. Ararat, Kars, Ardahan, Van, Bitlis, Erzerum, Harpoot and Diarbekir have been the home of the Armenian people. In the province of Diarbekir alone there were more than 50,000 Armenians before World War I. I know. I was born there and saw the Massacres...
...Said Doolittle to rocket-rattled Swedes: "I would like to see a rocket very much." Said Sarnoff: "Show me a rocket and I will tell you from where it comes and how big it is. If the Swedish Government wants to avail itself of my services, I will be glad to oblige...
Flight of Wordages. Houdini generally stays out of trouble by not criticizing Crown officials (one rival's song went: "I must be very frank and say, I was glad when Sir Hollis went away"). His Stone Cold Dead describes a murder in Port-of-Spain's Grass Market in 1939. He recorded it himself in 1939 (as He Had It Coming) but it got no popularity until Songstress Fitzgerald unearthed it this spring. Other Houdini songs have had such innocuous themes as I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones and Roosevelt Opens World's Fair...
...year-old, 5 ft. 2 in. Mary McMillin had won the state women's golf championship two years running. Last week, in her first round at the Western Amateur Tournament at Cleveland, Newcomer Mary drew Defending Champion Phyllis Otto and confided to her mother: "I'm glad to be able to go around with such a good player as Miss Otto...
...colleges had not been flooded-as Chicago's Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins and others feared-with "educational hobos." Most veterans seemed grateful for the help they got, more than glad to work out the difference. For vets out for an easy time, the 52-20 club (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was a simpler solution. But many a vet at college still felt that the Government had promised to underwrite the whole cost of his education. So did some veteran-conscious congressmen. Three bills to increase allotments died when the 79th Congress adjourned, may be up again next session...