Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-odd years ago Nathan Pusey was a junior at Harvard College and spent the summer working at a good outdoor job in Iowa. The rural household had seven children and no room for its new hired hand, so Pusey was sent to live down the road at the Woodwards...
...Fraudom Ring. In Hamm, West Germany, deciding a case, the state labor court ruled officially that "men are not capable to deal with household work...
While the evil of fake price-cutting has spread into virtually every merchandise field, the FTC and Better Business Bureaus say that the practice is the worst on sales of refrigerators, stoves, television sets, mattresses and other household goods. Chicago's Better Business Bureau recently checked 23 claims of bargains, found in all cases that the presale prices were fictitious. Most of the bargains sold for less or the same in other stores. A $289.95 advertised list TV set, for example, was "on sale" at $249.95 but could be bought elsewhere...
...Pope was also energetically shouldering his way through a massive cumulus of routine and ritual-reopening the papal study, which had been sealed on Pius XII's death, selecting his living quarters (the same three sparsely furnished rooms occupied by the last three Popes), meeting the household staff, learning his way around his tiny temporal kingdom of 108.7 acres, some 1,000 inhabitants...
From the suburban housewife who pinches her household money to collect dolls of all nations to the squillionaire* searcher of continents, collectors are a race apart. What distinguishes them, for good or ill, is the fact that they are not only possessors, but possessed...