Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase from 150 to 1,500 in ten months, has become a place where a man can spend some of his money. It has six new restaurants, a poolroom and bowling alley, three movie theaters. It also has a spanking-new hotel and beer parlor, where business is so good the waiters refuse to serve less than two beers at a time to a customer. Near Leduc, Imperial has bought a 160-acre field and built a village for 900 families...
...Braves have been dragging along ten or more games behind the pace-setting St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and like all good managers, Southworth hates to lose. A high-strung man who gave up drinking 14 years ago when he realized that alcohol had him down, he has been afflicted this summer with headaches and insomnia. "I never used to know what other fellows meant when they talked about headaches," said Billy...
...gone through Freeville or one of its offshoots* since Manhattan Manufacturer William George founded his Junior Republic in 1895, they were neither delinquent nor retarded but had the problems that come from bad home and neighborhood environments. Their goal during their stay at the Republic: to work out a good "adjustment...
...picked his way to work through Skid Row's reeking garbage and broken bottles, and stepped past the bodies of sleeping derelicts on the sidewalks, Daily News Managing Editor Everett C. Norlander felt his stomach turn over. His next reaction was that he was walking through a good story. When he got to his office, he called in two young rewrite men and asked: "How would you like to be bums for a while?" What Norlander wanted was an inside story of Skid Row to shock Chicago's complacent citizens into cleaning up the shame of their city...
...Gallery Director Bartlett Hayes Jr. had arranged a similar cross-section show last year (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948); this year he invited 25 schools not represented in the first exhibition to submit their prize work. The entries covered the U.S. from Oregon to Alabama, included a smattering of good pictures, most of which turned out to have been painted by students in their late...