Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women began to make perfect scores look like child's play. First, Mrs. M. L. Smythe, a 96-lb. Aurora, Ohio housewife, broke 100 straight - the first century ever chalked up by a woman in a national skeet tournament. Then, 19-year-old Patricia Laursen, a Rollins College junior, often called America's most beautiful athlete, scored another...
Raymond Huff proceeded to make WPA history, putting up school buildings at less than contract cost. Using 300 laborers and only four skilled tradesmen (a supervisor, electrician, plumber, concrete finisher), he built an $800,000 (architect's estimate) plant-new high school, gymnasium, agricultural building and remodeled junior high-for $550,000. His students carved, pegged, built all the furniture, tanned leather for office chairs, wove rawhide for classroom chairs, hammered hinges, lamps and other hardware from scrap iron, wove mohair rugs and draperies...
Last week this select sorority initiated a new member, freckled-faced, redheaded Patty Berg, tomboy darling of U. S. golf galleries. Still at college (Minnesota junior), still naive enough to shake hands with all comers, to blush when interviewed and squeak "Gee Whillikers" when excited, 22-year-old Patty decided last week that she had had her fill of big silver cups, joined the Wilson boosters-at a salary of $5,000 a year, plus commission on "Patty Berg" clubs...
...high-school junior last week won the $1,000 first prize in a nationwide art contest sponsored by American Magazine, He was judged the best of 52,587 contestants. Diminutive Ben Quintana, 17, was well qualified to paint the subject set-My Community: Its Place in the Nation. Winner Quintana's ancestors have lived in the U. S. as long as anybody: he is a full-blooded Pueblo Indian...
Month ago, an epidemic of sword swallowing started through the instinctively Republican ranks of businessmen. A frequent remark, especially in suburban and junior-executive circles: "I hate Roosevelt's guts, but I'll vote for him sooner than for Taft or Dewey." The reason for the epidemic was Adolf Hitler, who had reawakened in America the dormant sensation of patriotism. And President Roosevelt, by his aggressive rearmament policy, had begun to deflect the U. S. businessman's hatred of the New Deal toward Berlin. Young Republicans mistrusted Roosevelt, but they mistrusted the bumbling, obsolete, Chamberlainesque rituals...