Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hundreds at Cornell know "Lib" Bailey, the nation's most eminent horticulturist, as an erect, white-haired man whom they used to see dragging strange bushes and branches across the campus to his laboratory, where he puttered and purred over them. Sometimes he would grab a visitor by the arm and whisk him off to his garden. There, showing off the blooms and blossoms he had collected from lonely hillsides and jungles all over the world, he would say that his field was the true internationalism: "My pinks speak all languages alike...
...their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or hunt their own food. The elder Bailey was a Puritan, who liked being 52 miles from a postoffice (mail once a week, he thought, was quite enough), and had to approve every book young Lib read, except Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible. Once Lib brought home The Origin of Species; his father, who had heard fearsome things about the ungodly Darwin, looked it over, said, "I can't make it out. But I think the man is honest. Read his book." Young...
...with Kennedy in the original Gold Coast Orchestra was one John Green '98, who since has written such songs as "Body And Soul" and "You Came Along." In Kennedy's time, the orchestra was not so commercial as it became in later years, and played jam sessions--or "ad lib," as Kennedy puts it--as often as it worked from arrangements...
...colonel was a radio writer in 1930 when he and Budd Hulick, a studio announcer at Buffalo's WGR, were suddenly called on to ad-lib a desperate 15 minutes of silliness on the air. Before the show was over, the studio switchboard was jammed with calls from entranced listeners, and Stoopnagle & Budd were a top team in radio for the next eight years. In 1938 the partners went their separate ways,* and the vogue for Stoop's simpleton style of comedy vanished...
...Lib. What about expansion? Ben Moreell reported that the industry was currently engaged in a $1 billion program which would increase capacity by 2,500.000 tons by the end of 1948. Same day, Jones & Laughlin announced a large mine-development program "in order to produce more and better steel"; Columbia Steel, a Big Steel subsidiary, announced plans for a 300,000-ton-a-year sheet-steel mill near Los Angeles...