Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leverett House Dramatic Club's production of "The Early plays of Three Well-known Dramatists" requires grotesque positions to prepare scenery for three weird one-act plays. "The Marriage Proposal" by Chekhov is a marriage proposal which isn't, at least not until the longing-to-be-bride's father twists the scene until the knot is tied. Tennessee Williams' "The Strangest Kind of Romance" finds a man fallen in love with a cat. Animals also appear in Noel Coward's "Weatherwise" as people take to barking and scratching, and the real dogs on the set eat rugs...
...throated farm wife. "This one throwed rocks at us." One state farm official reported: "I've lived in the so-called dust bowl since 1907, and I've never seen it in the condition it is in now." Explained Texas Conservationist Henry N. Smith: "It isn't so much what this one storm did-it's that this one came on top of five years of trouble...
...means low net returns for the risk involved because the speculator pays full income tax on any gain from short sales, whether he holds the stock a day or a year. Commented Chairman Fulbright: "Well, that certainly is news to me . . . That is quite a discouragement to short selling, isn't it?" Clean Record. Was anything really wrong with the market? Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Ralph Demmler gave Wall Street a clean bill of health for its conduct during the big bull market, made it clear that SEC is fully capable of regulating the nation's stock...
...Page explained it: "Your capacity for tension has a limit beyond which it isn't safe to go ... The patterns you establish in your late 20s and early 30s largely determine your load-carrying capacities during your 40s and later. Crackups in middle life are usually the consequence of what you have accumulated or abused in your earlier years. Most crackups are needless. They are a self-invited penalty that we Americans are paying for a doubtful standard of material success. In Europe, and over most of the world, physical and mental crackups are rare, despite wars and tensions...
...even you see that we need a state-owned pound for cats. Now, the cost isn't really as much as you think. I mean it'll only be a couple of thousand a year. It's worth at least that much to protect our people, don't you think...