Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make Mine Manhattan. Gay, witty revue which, while pretending to laugh at Manhattan Island, makes violent love to it (TIME...
...earnest, and a most pleasant person with whom to deal." Said Truman, all of a sudden: "General, there is nothing that you may want that I won't try to help you get. That definitely and specifically includes the presidency in 1948." Ike says he replied with a laugh: "Mr. President, I don't know who will be your opponent for the presidency, but it will...
Well, you all remember how we won the Columbia game. We moved up into national prominence overnight. It always makes me laugh when I think that everyone forgot to listen to Coach Valpey's words: "We're far from being a team yet." The most significant single factor towards helping the Crimson in that opening game was discovery of a young man named Phil Isenberg, a backer...
Another thing they laugh at is the familiar phrase, "irreplaceable topsoil." Topsoil should certainly be cherished and protected, the soil men say, but it is not irreplaceable. In 1937, a U.S. Government experiment station skinned ten inches of soil off half an acre of virgin Ohio grassland, leaving nothing but the yellow subsoil. Corn planted on an untreated strip of this poor stuff produced no crop at all. But other strips were nursed along with fertilizer and crop rotations. During the sixth season, the best strip of man-made topsoil produced 86 bushels of corn an acre, more than twice...
John Barton Townley, 34, is a rich Englishman with a Falstaffian laugh and a weak heart. Because of the heart, his doctor advised him to give up golf and rugger. So Townley, having studied the racing sheets as well as law at Cambridge, bought some race horses. Last week, at Newmarket, his weak heart thumped and bumped under a strain that might have told on stronger...