Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GERMAN AUTO TYCOON Friedrich Flick will add the nearly bankrupt Bavarian Motor Works, West Germany's seventh largest automaker, to his Daimler-Benz empire, already the Continent's biggest carmaker. Taking over B.M.W., Flick will get two fast-selling small cars, the midget Isetta and the new B.M.W...
...that without canned laughter they may well get none at all; politicians feared that they may have to tell when their speeches are ghosted. If absolute honesty prevails, observed New York Herald Tribune Critic Marie Torre, TV men may have to confess that Manners the butler is not a midget, that Lassie is not a bitch dog after all, and they may have to use real bullets instead of blanks on Westerns. ("This," she deadpanned, "we'd welcome...
...announcement of compact cars from Detroit reminds me of the story of the circus that advertised having "the biggest midget in the world...
...Midget Centers. Georgia is one of 44 states with centralized machinery for attracting general practitioners to rural areas. Many young doctors are reluctant to try it because they fear professional isolation, want to be near good hospitals. Virginia and Kansas pioneered with plans to have communities build midget medical centers and lease them (sometimes at $1 a year) to doctors in sectors remote from hospitals. The Sears, Roebuck Foundation works through the A.M.A. in offering communities help in planning, financing, building and equipping the centers. Last week Dr. Sills got his permanent license from the Georgia Board of Medical Examiners...
During the opening sessions the well-financed Russians had comparatively little to say. Most striking papers came from Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, whose single seagoing ship, the battered schooner Vema, is a midget compared to the Lomonosov and more than once has been embarrassed in out-of-the-way ports for lack of money to buy supplies. Lament Men Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen, both members of an oceanographic subspecies whose real interest is the bottom, told how the Vema's probing-on-a-shoestring may have solved the ancient mystery of how the earth...