Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laughing Matter. In Salt Lake City, Mrs. Ida Thompson complained in her divorce suit that her husband "frequently purchased comic books by the dozen [and] read them...
...Lake Success, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinslcy found something that Russians and Americans have in common. Switching briefly from his own language to English to make a quotation, he told a U.N. committee: "I trust you will excuse my barbarous English, but it is well known that English pronunciation often cannot be mastered, not only by Russians, but also by the Americans...
...unsportsmanlike plot, involving a low trick on fish, is being cooked up by Dr. Konrad Kreutzer, a well-known German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail...
...Sureseaters had opened in San Diego and Salt Lake City. Others were planned in Denver, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma. Los Angeles, which had gotten five new sureseaters in twelve months, would soon get one more which has hitherto specialized in westerns...
Vocational Training. In Salt Lake City, officials learned that Forger Mearle L. Markely had whiled away his year in state prison by printing up bogus checks in the prison print shop...