Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, governments pondered ways & means of increasing both industrial and agricultural output. Most of Latin America's machines are imported. Argentina excepted, Latin America imports a healthy chunk of its food supply-chief items: wheat, corn and beef. One way out of the deficiency: increase the number of skilled workers by selective immigration...
Traffic Jam. In Tempe, Ariz., Scott Whitcock tied his horse to a hitching rack, left it there too long, came back to find a parking ticket tied to the saddle horn...
...announced: "I won't play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting Frank Kovacs, who sometimes tries to outrage his opponents into bad playing, almost came to blows with Welby Van Horn, the defending champ...
Bachelor of Laws degrees, magna cum laude, were received by Lawrence F. Ebb '39 and Harris K. Weston '40 both as of the class of 1943. Those winning cum laude awards were Garfield H. Horn '40, Robert A. McDowell, William P. Reiss, as of the class of 1943; and James A. Lake, class...
...only opportunity for expression in the last act, and shows her years of experience well in building up to a pitch of fear that is broken by the murderer's dramatic entrance, and sends the balcony audience into the rafters. Ruth Homond, a winsome lass when she removes her horn-rimmed glasses--and you know she will--is a well-bred Pegeen Mike to the predatory "playboy," suffering only the occupational disease of being adequate. William Mendrek is a figure of bumptious incompetence as the casual prig who, in a poor imitation of a young English squire, half-heartedly tries...