Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl approaching 30 is apt to get an attack of the will-I's; Will I, oh will I ever find a husband? In Japan, this question throws the girl's entire family into a near panic. The Makioka Sisters is the story of a great mate hunt conducted with all the fussy protocol, near misses and ever-lurking dangers of a de luxe African safari...
Last year undergraduate Architectural Science courses had no centralized location. Given in the basement of Robinson Hall, and also in Hunt Hall, they lacked both individual desks and storage space. These deficiencies have been taken care...
...Cigar Hunt. When Mrs. Ballou isn't bear-hugging her little darling, she likes to gaze fondly at her college diploma framed upon the wall. Some people, she points out to Benjy, lack her advantages. The most conspicuous lackee is Daddy Ballou, a monosyllabic TV repairman. Daddy usually climbs into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten...
...Such excitement was merely the beginning. In the midst of the nip-and-tuck 1954 congressional campaign, Wilson remarked in Detroit, referring to laid-off auto workers: "I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five-sided...
PANAMA OIL hunt is exciting wildcatters. Although country has no producing well, U.S. combine of Champlin Oil & Refining Co. (50%), Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc. (25%) and Southland Royalty Co. (25%) has picked up 870,000-acre concession, plans to drill two wells early in 1958. Also in the search: United Fruit Co., which recently got 1,000,000-acre concession...