Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recalls, she went for the idea that every human being has a soulmate; but she never found one. Then she believed that she could crowd a thousand lives into one lifetime-to be "a North Pole explorer, a great writer, a mother of ten." She turned out to be none of these things...
...Similar practices are not unknown in the U.S. In 1863, Horace Greeley denounced the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett for running "personals." Sample: "Mischievous Lizzy and Mary wish to form the acquaintance of two lively gentlemen . . . They must be of high society; none need answer unless sincere." The tony Saturday Review of Literature still carries such coy invitations as: "Will clever Cleopatra correspond with mature, amiable Antony...
...doctors, was almost 98% successful both in preventing and curing seasickness. The crossing was "extremely rough." One group of G.I.s got one capsule (100 milligrams) as the ship left New York, another six hours later, and then one before each meal and at bedtime; only two complained of dizziness, none of nausea. After the drug was stopped, 30% of them got sick. As a check to see if mental suggestion might be working the cure, a group of 123 believed that they were getting the new remedy, but actually got sugar capsules. In this group, 35 became good & sick...
...Experience? None of the "healthy readjustment" talk sat very well with the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey or some of the farm leaders who appeared before the committee. They thought that there was still danger of inflation, and that the President should get what he asked for. So did John D. Clark of the Council of Economic Advisers, who said: "If this inflationary boom levels off by itself, it will be a new experience...
...records fell Saturday night at the annual Ic4-A track meet at Madison Square Garden, but Harvard shared in none of the glory. Competing with a skeleton team, the Crimson tied with Fordham for 17th place with three points in the record field of 46 colleges...