Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Natchez on his retirement in 1947, announced that if he could raise enough money to keep the school from foundering and increase its enrollment, he would be glad to take the job of skipper. Moreover, he knew just what he wanted the Jefferson of the future to be like: a school where students would lay the basis of interservice understanding by taking combined courses in "naval, military, air and diplomatic sciences." Said Tip Merrill, once an outspoken foe of service unification (TIME, April 22, 1946): "Jefferson Military College could set the example for the nation to follow...
...rule "will mean a whole bottle instead of a drink. We'll just have to do our drinking parked up in the hills ..." Moreover, cried the student editors, by neglecting to discuss the decision with representatives of student groups, the administration had failed to treat students "like adults...
Athlete's Foot. The second biggest paper, The People, is something like a light lady who has married and tried to settle down. It blends sensationalism with folksiness, makes a try at teaching readers how to cook, dance, cure athlete's foot, play the horses and read the stars.* But 58-year-old Editor Harry Ainsworth, who has raised The People's circulation from 300,000 to 4,958,000 in 24 years, also puts crime and sex stories in their place-generally on Page One. Last week The People's eager readers were being filled...
...group of electrical contacts touching the surface of the subject's brain, says Dr. Krieg, might enable him to read. A pattern of such impulses coming through the electrodes of the apparatus might be controlled to appear as words, moving across the blind man's visual consciousness like the letters of an advertising sign...
...financial centers of the world last week, the gold fever spread like the blood-tingling news of a rich new strike. Day after day on the New York Stock Exchange, the cheap stock of a Philippine gold-mining company, Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., was among the heaviest traded. Wall Street's Bache & Co. was busily selling unrefined gold (the only kind that can be legally held in the U.S.) at premium prices ($44 an ounce). In London, South African gold-mining stocks were ones eagerly bought in a falling market...