Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back: "I don't know what a vitrine is, but if they'll bring in that much, put them in." In the Palmer House, a bookstore that was paying a rent of $250 a month was replaced by a cocktail lounge grossing $2,000 a day. Employee locker space was centralized, making space for 50 additional rooms. In Hilton's first year, the Palmer House's operating profit rose $1,300,000 to $4,321,000. Hilton's men keep close tabs on food & beverages, figure that they saved $100,000 last year by careful...
...team up for the games." In these days of two platoon football, they just don't go out and "win one for the Gipper" any more. It is far more important to hire a sound football coach than one who can sound like Pat O'Brien in the locker room between the halves. There is, of course, something to the theory that the team which is up for the game plays better than it ordinarily does. But we feel that this point is over-emphasized, and that 49 times out of 50 the fundamentally sound team will beat the poorer...
...Henry Lamar might want to scout a few high school games in season, and drop around to the locker room after the game. It wouldn't disappoint the old grads in the end zone if an undefeated Harvard played Yale for a change...
Once the contact was made, another Mountie undercover man got to know Father Taillefer, then made a deal for six ounces of heroin. The priest directed him to Montreal's Central Station, where the heroin was stored in a locker. For three months after that, the police let Father Taillefer operate freely, keeping watch on him and his associates in Montreal's crime belt. When the Mounties pounced four weeks ago, three other Montrealers, who are still awaiting trial, were charged along with Father Taillefer. A cache of 15,000 heroin capsules ("enough to keep the city going...
...seems a spaniel had attached itself to the soccer team during the latter's practice behind the Business School. The dog followed the team back to Dillon, where it was temporarily incarcerated in the soccer squad's locker room and the police were called...