Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader hastened to point out that the "eyewitness" was using a pseudonym of the late great physician and practical joker Sir William Osler. What Weyer should also have known: there is no authenticated instance in natural history of a whale swallowing a man. Last December, Weyer had his printing ink mixed with tangy pine chemicals to give the magazine an "outdoor" smell. When allergic readers wrote watery-eyed letters of protest, he abandoned the idea...
Most of the 400-odd TV men who gathered in Chicago last week for the Second National Television Conference were in a cheerfully self-satisfied mood. They crowded the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House and reported black ink on their books for the first time...
...Bureau was formed in 1945 primarily for research in perfecting aptitude tests and will continue to concentrate on this aspect. The "Ink-blot" test, given to freshmen last fall, and the Proficiency Test for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, similar to the Aptitude Survey, are both still in process. These four tests, along with the objective language examinations, have made up the basic pieces of research material for the Bureau of Tests so far, and will continue to keep the Bureau busy in the future...
...Republicans," he cried, building up to his punch line, "sit around waiting for us to make a proposal. Then they react with an outburst of scare words. They are like a cuttlefish that squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever its slumber is disturbed...
...nobody struck at red-ink budgeting harder than General Electric's big-fisted President Charles E. Wilson. "No one in the seat of authority in our Government has yet shown any real intention of paying off [the debt]," said Wilson at a dinner in Philadelphia. Wilson called such negligence a "shameful dereliction to duty and immoral administrative betrayal of a great economic system." He agreed with President Truman that the U.S. national income might well reach $300 billion in five years, but added: "We must take care that we are still dealing in dollars at the end of five...