Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another opportunist who leaped aboard the Fascist band wagon, Juan March's nostrils apparently told him that the band wagon was turning into a one-hoss shay. Other Spaniards sniffed the same scent. Arriba, Falange newspaper in Madrid, termed Mussolini's fall "a symbol of a...
Radio has at last made a good thing out of the American institution of the blind date (NBC, Thurs., 8-8:30 p.m., E.W.T.). Six servicemen (usually chosen from a nearby canteen) are paired off before a telephone in NBC's Manhattan studios. Each pair competes for a pretty...
Before the war young men made up the bulk of the librarians at the institution, since Metcalf as well as college authorities considered male helpers more appropriate in a men's college. Under the National Youth Administration and the Temporary Student Employment Service, which are no longer in operation, undergraduate...
Spry Uncle Fred sat in his office last week, and snapped a rubber band. He was melancholy. Said he: "If an institution stays around for ten years, it has probably done all it can do. . . . I plan soon to go to Alaska again to gather some data for the War...
In San Francisco, Harry Bridges, fiery, Australian-born longshoremen's union leader, was pleased to announce that under his auspices fellow jazz addicts could now regularly hear the resurrected, 63-year-old New Orleans trumpeter Willie ("Bunk") Johnson and other barrelhouse veterans who played with him at a San...