Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post's columns are as exotic as its habitat, lean hard on local news: the native mother who accused a neighbor of doing in her youngest son; a warning that the dangers of capturing Papuan black snakes far outweigh their medicinal value. Periodically, readers are brought up to date on population losses caused by wild boars, crocodiles, sharks and cannibals. Post advertisers plug canned butter, rainwater tanks, ceiling fans, copra boats and soap, sometimes in pidgin English: "Altaim waswas long sop new bilong im Palmolive...
Fels's hard-won conclusion: "Bennington College is a small, rural, private, experimental, women's college of high quality which emphasizes the development of the individual. It shares the cultural advantages of New York, Boston and Montreal. Its hill is moderately high. From it, on a clear day, you can just see, beyond the toilet paper factory, the historic Walloomsac River flowing northward away from Williamstown, where there is a small, rural, private, experimental college* of high quality for well-rounded...
...radar facilities. He has worked out a common airspace system for both military and commercial planes, opened thousands of square miles of "restricted" military space to commercial carriers. He prefers to use soft talk instead of a big stick, but he can hit hard, especially when pilots fail to realize that jet planes require a much closer watch than older, slower planes...
Self Zipper. For women who have a hard time zipping up the backs of their dresses, L.M.B. Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia is selling the Zip Master, a long nylon cord with a brass spring fastener that clips onto the slide tab. Price...
...quicksand as it closes over its victim. Such febrile considerations flash through the boggled minds of readers as they sink out of sight in Author Wallach's pun-swampy prose. The man is popping with word-foolery. He interrupts his narrative-and a more interruptible narrative would be hard to find-to inform the reader that a tirade is "a sneak attack on a haberdashery," and a syndrome is "a large amphitheater where the ancient Romans used to sin." He dreams moodily of going to Canada and establishing a police force equal in every respect to the Mounties...