Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Valpey, who left Ann Arbor Wednesday, will live in Kirkland House along with his assistants, until he can find permanent quarters for his wife and family...
...swollen agencies in Washington live in fear of their daily bread and butter," said Professor Schumpeter, in a stab at Bureaucracy. He labelled the money used to pay bureaucrats "negligible" compared with the damage they caused...
...Music Czar James C. Petrillo hit the ceiling again. What set him off this time was a television performance of Aïda, with the actors pantomiming the words of an offstage record. In his A.F. of M. tradesheet, The International Musician, Petrillo denounced the "televisers who employ live musicians only on a casual basis and have indicated no present inclination to staff their stations with live musicians." The argument sounded fine; the only trouble with it, said the televisers, was a longstanding Petrillo ban against the employment of live musicians in television. Petrillo had apparently forgotten his own ruling...
...Kuiper thinks that his infra-red spectrometer (a wartime development) has answered some of these questions by identifying certain gases and solids on Mars. Last autumn, he found that the atmosphere of Mars contains a small amount of carbon dioxide, which is necessary to plants (the basic living organisms). Without any carbon dioxide, plants cannot live, but too much would indicate that there are no plants on Mars to consume...
...Between the Sexes. In London, when John Gilbert's wife refused him ?i, he tossed a live hand grenade...