Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water off Panama's San José Islands in Panama Bay was rough, but the Schmidt boys, Louis Jr., 32, and John, 35, knew their business and were ready for anything-especially marlin. Said Louis, Sailfish are just one, two, three compared to marlin. Marlin are big, scarce, make spectacular leaps clear out of water -and they're good...
...fact that two men handled the rod may keep Schmidt from becoming the new recordholder. But the International Game Fish Association might make an exception. Louis Schmidt, injured as a boy in Baltimore, has only...
...universities. Thus each year, as more boys & girls come of college age, the demand for higher education grows more frenzied, the passion for degrees more fervent. (Even a "failed B.A." on a calling card is better than no college record at all.) Meanwhile, authorities have been forced to make the examinations ever stiffer. In Bombay alone, more than 50,000 youngsters took the 1949 tests...
...having an orchestra pit full of musicians swallowed up by the floor, to reappear a few moments later high at the rear of the stage. Lowered by elevator, the pit simply moves through the basement under its own power and gets on one of the three elevators that make up the sectional stage. (The stage revolves, too, elevators...
...atomic bombing, or a mishap at an atomic plant, no one would be able to say just when it would be safe to send in rescue squads. Said Dr. Newell: "This is like saying you don't know whether a teaspoonful or tumblerful of poison will make a man sick...