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...Biggest single group of boys (21%) wanted to be farmers; 3% wanted to be airplane pilots; less than 1% politicians or lawyers. Among the girls, it was nip & tuck between being a farmer's wife (8%), a schoolteacher (8%) or an agricultural extension worker...
During the early '30s the hard-fighting Journal held a nip-&-tuck lead over the Oregonian. In 1937, when chunky, agile-minded Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt took over, the Oregonian began a circulation march that in two years carried it to an 18,000 lead over the Journal. Then in 1939 the Journal bought the money-making News-Telegram for $525,000 and apparently clinched its lead with a solid 16,000 advantage...
...clerk's voice boomed: "Allen of Illinois!" "No!" "Allen of Louisiana!" ";Yes."The count seesawed, nip & tuck. Not until the "Ws" were reached could Rayburn be sure. He announced the vote at 4:25, in the hushed House: "212 ayes to 194 nays." The bill was passed. A shift of ten votes would have killed it. Of 159 Republicans, 137 had voted against repeal. But if 22 Republicans had voted against repeal instead of for it, the bill would have been beaten. In the two days of debate the Republican leader, Joe Martin of Massachusetts, had said only five...
...seven-hour session, distracted by members rushing in & out to telephone for train reservations, to phone long-distance for the latest football scores, to rush into the chairman's inner office for a quick nip at a mysterious jug inside, the committee also struck out the guts of the enforcement system proposed...
...must nip the movement in the bud. I call upon the College to awaken from its apathy before it is too late. We may one day walk into the Indoor Athletic Building to find that one lane of the swimming pool has been reserved for the R----e sea serpents on the grounds that their swimming facilities are inadequate. But, to return to the problem at hand, we must face the broader question: Why give them books at all? My contention has always been that women should be modestly busy in the kitchen or modestly idel in the parlor. Would...