Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the former G.O.P. Governor of Minnesota, fit but 30 lbs. lighter than his peacetime 225 lbs., headed west for St. Paul and a few more days at home. After that, he said, he will return to the Pacific...
There are five operating tables aboard the Solace. There are six regular wards-all of them with double bunks except the convalescent ward, which has three tiers of bunks for the lighter cases. The wards accommodate 50 to 70 men each. The 40-odd officers bunk four and six to the room. The X ray, the pharmacy and all the assorted medical and surgical equipment are as good as in the best U.S. hospitals. But to the marine or soldier arriving from the battlefield's filth, the most wonderful thing about the Solace is the food. The night...
...Faculty Supper at which we were the guests of the Business School Faculty was a real pleasure. Jim Rafferty and Al Ogden report both the conversation and the beer lighter than they had expected, in giving a glowing account of the evening to the uninitiated...
...will be rationed again. So will canned goods, but not so tightly as before. Last year OPA piled up a big canned surplus-some of which the U.S. has been eating point-free this summer. This time OPA plans to market the entire pack. Sugar rationing will get no lighter, as supplies are 25% below 1941. Probably used cars will be rationed by year's end, clothes will not. Shoemen fear an end to shoe rationing...
Jascha Heifetz, tuning up with two recitals in Rome before going on tour among front-line troops, announced that he would play only classical numbers, including some "musical spinach" like Bach's lighter works. The virtuoso observed that 10% of the soldiers "seem to like serious music . . . the other 90% get leg shows...