Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor of the showing, Finley will stage a pre-premiere reception at Eliot House in conjunction with the board of directors of Ivy Films Research, Inc., the legal name of the film club...
...three days of business since the opening of the name-clearance bureau, about 40 sellers' names have been given to seekers of Army game tickets. Two would be economists were caught taking advantage of the high demand by trying to get more than the list price for their small supply of tickets. Council agents phoned both and warned them of a newly adopted plan to "blacklist" scalpers and publish their names in, a Council bulletin...
Rock-climbing is one side of mountaineering; the other side is ice-climbing. HMC members wear "crampons" with two-inch spikes when they're ice-climbing, and carry ice axes to chop zig-zag staircases in glaores. "Glissading" is their name for skiing down a slope without any exis; "glassading" is a similar procedure involving another part of the anatomy...
...coming thing in continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...
...your name Murphy? Are you a descendant of Ann Radcliffe or Ebenexer W. Cook? Were any of your ancestors members of the classes of 1844 or 1902? Do you live within 15 miles of Fitchburg? Were you over a Boston newsboy...