Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place by pointing out that "living matter, by weight, constitutes an insignificant part of our planet" (roughly one-quarter of 1%), and that if all human beings were collected in one place they would occupy an area not quite as large as Switzerland's Lake Constance...
...hefty chunks from his public pay. He saved even more when, in the years following 1910, he served as an industrial counselor, for fat fees. Aside from his present salary and investments, he has two piddling sources of income. Royalties from his books still trickle in. And on a lake on his 100-acre Kingsmere summer estate, some 15 miles north of Ottawa, the Prime Minister has built a few sturdy cottages, rents them to vacationers...
Died. Rear Admiral Ernest Gregor ("Shorty") Small, 56, modest, soft-spoken onetime commander of the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Salt Lake City, the "one ship fleet'' which sank five Japanese warships, saved the U.S.S. Boise in the Solomon Islands Battle of Cape Esperance; of long illness ; in Manhattan...
...strange tactics of political war, King's Liberal Party chose Grey North Riding, on the rocky shore of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, as the place where newcomer McNaughton could best be elected. Promptly the pesky Tories saw another chance to overturn King's plans by beating his key Cabinet man, nominated a solid local citizen, popular Mayor Garfield Case. Their election issue: McNaughton's avowed opposition to conscription. Last week they were preparing to plaster the whole district with posters saying: "Do We or Don't We [want conscription]? Vote Yes. Vote Case...
Sonja Henie, whose skates are lyric, was named Least Cooperative Actress of the Year by the Hollywood Women's Press Club. Runners-up: Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Lana Turner. Men's champion: Walter Pidgeon. Said he: "It's just like being nominated for the Academy award...