Word: larking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting up with the lark good advice for the young? Yes, agrees Mark Twain slyly, "if you get yourself the right kind of a lark and work him right, you can easily train him to get up at 9:30 every time." What about bad habits? Twain is an expert on giving up smoking: "I can give it up whenever I want to. I've done it a thousand times." Why is he wearing a white suit? "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Wielding the satiric pinpoint that is sometimes more deadly...
...Angeles to Kansas City, Mo. the honors went to a Rambler American Deluxe driven by Woody Bell, 44. The Rambler topped the 47-car field with an average 25.2878 miles per gallon; a Rambler Deluxe was second, with a 22.9572-m.p.g. average. Third place was won by a Studebaker Lark Deluxe, with 22.4422. For the first time entries were judged this year on an actual miles-per-gallon basis instead of the ton-mileage formula used previously, which favored bigger, heavier cars...
Compact Car: Rambler American Deluxe, 25.2878 m.p.g.; Rambler Deluxe, 22.9572 m.p.g.; Studebaker Lark Deluxe, 22.4422 m.p.g...
...being "right," Romney means that the compact-car market is far bigger than other makers have previously estimated. One prime piece of evidence: the entrance of Studebaker-Packard's compact Lark, which has not hurt Rambler at all, even though the Lark is being turned out at the rate of 4,300 cars a week. A year ago, the Big Three's experts estimated the compact-and small-car market at 500,000 a year-at most. Last week they had raised their sights, expect the compact market to range from...
...last week, what had started as an idle lark had become a serious affair for both Thompson and Brown. Not only was the flare-up drawing headlines in Providence papers, but newspapers across the nation were carrying deadpan accounts that bore no hint of its whimsical beginnings. Wincing at the story's effect on alumni fund drives and student recruitment programs, Brown officials, with hopes of clearing the air, approved a debate between Thompson and Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey...