Word: kicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual idea. Among them, his 1,300 men have 2,436 children; 94 are of college age. but only 21 are in college. Why not forgo the wage hike, start a college fund for members' children? The men voted in favor unanimously: the employers enthusiastically agreed to kick in a 3% payroll tax. Result: $15,000 annually for four scholarships at Adelphi College, with more likely next year - apparently the first and only such union fund...
...Announce that you compose away from the piano. It doesn't matter whether you do or not, but you must always say so ('I visualized the entire oratorio in a flash while washing the dishes')." ¶ "When you get there, kick over the ladder. You will undoubtedly teach, and you must remember at all times that every student represents a potential rival. A little bad advice, discreetly given, has halted or slowed many a career." ¶ "Have money. Birth, marriage or fraud are the three most suitable sources...
Toronto scored three points in the opening minutes on a short penalty kick, but the Crimson dominated play for the rest of the game. The home team tied it up later when Graham Russell scored on a 25-yard angle kick...
Using his strong kick, Dave Brahrms won the 440 for the Crimson in the absence of captain Albie Gordon. Gordon busied himself by competing in the 100 and 220, picking up a second in the latter event. Taking over for Cahn, Gus Schumacher turned in a 1:57.3 clocking...
...Morse. As soon as the Senate wound up its close REA vote (see The Congress), Morse stood up. Not so soon, said Morse, "did I expect that those of us who voted against the nomination of Clare Boothe Luce would be proved so right." He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this slanderer." Three Democratic Senators who had voted for Mrs. Luce-Ohio's Frank Lausche, Texas' Ralph Yarborough, Wyoming's Gale McGee-solemnly announced that if they had known...