Word: manifoldness
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This gift has an all day use. In the evening for parties, it pops corn. In the morning, it poaches eggs. It can also boil tea, cook soup, and keep hot buttered rum and toddies warm. This only suggests its manifold uses--heating the baby's bottle is another--which will come to the resourceful recipient. Regularly priced at $6.75, it is going for $5.75 at Bay State...
Along with these manifold activities, Evita runs her vast Social Aid Foundation. Before Evita, Argentine charity was_ the special preserve of Buenos Aires' aristocratic Sociedad de Beneficencia, whose honorary president was traditionally the President's wife. When the Beneficencia's haughty dowagers decided that Evita was not good enough, Evita set out to show them. In less than three years, the Beneficencia has vanished, while the organization that Evita founded with $2,092 of her own money has grown into the country's biggest single enterprise...
...Editor Wally Parks still drives to work in a half-souped 1929 Ford (Evans heads and manifold); Motor Trend Editor Walter A. Woron drives a 1950 Ford with a Cadillac grill. Editor Robert Greene of Cycle put-puts to work on his Harley-Davidson 61. But Publishers Lindsay and Petersen now arrive in blue stock-model 1950 Cadillacs...
...Gale Hall's dashboard "Mile-o-Meter." The meter shows the driver the rate at which he is using gas, thus warns him when he is driving uneconomically (e.g., stopping & starting too fast) or his engine is wasting gas. The meter has a rubber tube to the intake manifold; the manifold pressure controls a needle on the dashboard dial, which shows the rate of gas consumption...
...success of the book was a credit to the new philosophy of Yearbook Publications. The advantages of a permanent staff, self-reproducing and possessed of esprit do corps, over a subcommittee of the Senior Class Committee were manifold...