Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competition in Charlotte. The Knights, wary of complaints about monopoly, were not anxious to gobble up the News and take sole ownership in a town they entered only four years ago. But buying the News made the kind of economic sense that Jim Knight likes to make: fusing the mechanical and business office operations of the two papers will give the ledgers a real lift. As for the editorial side, Jim Knight plans to let each paper keep its individual character, with the News continuing as a folksy, locally oriented, feature-conscious paper, while the Observer moves on a somewhat...
...Sweat." At first popular only in the East, handball was taken up by the Y.M.C.A.s, got a big lift in the '30s when the Federal Government's make-work programs built hundreds of outdoor courts. Inexpensive to play (a good pair of leather gloves costs only $5), the sport now claims some 5,500,000 participants. "When you're young, you play singles and run and sweat," says one handballing Chicago doctor. "Later you take up doubles, and when you're 70, you pick a strong partner and just putter around...
...decide to compose an opera based on the afternoon's talk, and the Countess is finally left with the agonizing task of choosing between Poetry and Music- Poet and Composer. In a gently ironic ending she looks deep into her mirror and finds that she can make no choice-her two loves...
...easily train him to get up at 9:30 every time." What about bad habits? Twain is an expert on giving up smoking: "I can give it up whenever I want to. I've done it a thousand times." Why is he wearing a white suit? "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Wielding the satiric pinpoint that is sometimes more deadly than the sword, Twain proceeds to let the hot air out of do-gooders, religious humbugs and assorted hokum peddlers. To vary the pace, there are tall tales, a ghost story...
...many children a woman has makes little difference. Dr. Lovshin found. Most of his patients had only one or two. "A woman with one child just worries four times as much about the one as the woman with four children, and it all comes out even." What does make a difference is age. None of his patients were under 20, but many were going on 40. "The nervous system can't take so much after 30, and two hours of screaming is bad enough at any age, but after 36 it is unbearable...