Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth, then, outplayed, outrebounded (45 to 36), and outshot (47 per cent to 34 per cent) the underdog varsity. But an encouraging note was struck in the preliminary contest when the Yard-lings swamped the Dartmouth freshmen...
Searinghouse. In Salonica, Greece, thieves ransacked Nikolaos Youlias' warehouse, burned all the checks they found in his safe, left a note urging him to leave some money next time...
...British, hitherto the politest, who delivered the sharpest retort to the insulting distortions of history implicit in Khrushchev's Berlin note. With tongue in cheek, the British wondered why, among other historical documents, the Russians did not mention the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which "made the outbreak of war inevitable," called Munich a lesson in appeasement to heed in Berlin now, and cuttingly recalled that because the Soviet Union had failed to honor the freedom of religion, press, speech and voting promised in the 1945 Potsdam agreement, "some 2,000,000 Germans have left East Germany rather than endure...
...cube makers in microbe-free areas, bag the ice mechanically and store it at 20° F.; dispense ice with tongs; use wide-mouthed carafes, of types that can be sterilized with heat, and have skilled help do this job daily in the diet kitchen. The researchers note wryly that hospital personnel spend hours figuring out just what quantity of fluids a patient gets-so why" not pay a little attention to the quality...
Allowing itself a brief lapse into professional sentiment, the New York Times took editorial note of the end of the 19-day newspaper strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...