Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some businessmen resent his interference, fear and respect prevent outcries. The sound of the name Dave Beck still touches the nerve centers of thousands with the impact of a fist on bone. But the great majority of employers think he is wonderful and applaud like happy seals when he speaks at the Chamber of Commerce...
...Chicago bookies quoted odds of 3 to 5 that Princess Elizabeth would name her baby George. Other odds: even money on Philip, 6 to 5 on Albert, 2 to 11against Louis, 100 to 1 against Jake...
First, there is Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre who, in The Respectful Prostitute (TIME, March 24, 1947), depicted the U.S. South on a lynching bee. He describes Americans as suffering from "an obscure malaise to which no name can be given." One of the symptoms: ". . . After dinner, [American men] leave their chairs, radios, wives, pipes and children and go to the bar across the street to get drunk alone...
...York tomorrow night when the Crimson indoor squad takes on a Williams band in the Squadron A armory at 94th at and Madison ave. in the big city. The trios will face off at 8;30 p.m. A metropolitan league game between a pair of New York "name" teams is also on the bill...
...couldn't name any particularly outstanding Harvard player if I had to," Yale's Coach Herman Hickman said at the press conference after Saturday's game, "they're a team." He was right...