Word: ois
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serial with the assistance of a writer named Alford Van Ronkel and the cast, hoarded her material so carefully that a year passed before she exhausted the three acts of her play. The strident squabbles continue with the newlyweds subordinated to their united families. Babies belch, actors say "oi" and "certainel," call each other "mommele," "poppele," and "schlemihlich shpalpeen...
These startling assertions express the views of two ranking U.S. geologists who agreed last week that large parts of every continent (with the possible exception oi Australia) are soaked with petroleum, Wrote Harvard's Professor Kirtley F Mather in Science: there is "no chance' that the U.S., which has produced two-thirds of the world's oil, has any monopoly of it. Wrote Wallace E. Pratt, a director of Standard Oil of New Jersey: finding oil requires a "delicate synchronization of science, machinery, and the human equation" that is peculiarly American. His new book...
Example: parents of a five-year old boy or girl can provide tuition for a two-year course at Chicago when he or she grows up by buying a $25 certificate each month for two years. If a prospective student flunks Chicago's entrance requirements oi decides to change his mind about going there, the university pays back his savings in cash...
...Turks, which says that when Serbia is threatened the peasants pick up their guns and sing. Serbia's peasants marched and sang last week. So did the peasants of Bosnia, of Macedonia and of Montenegro. At Kragujevac in Old Serbia they marched round & round the village singing Oi Serbio! At Skoplje in South Serbia they sang Macedonian revolutionary songs. At Berane in Montenegro they sang battle songs from the days of the Turkish-Montenegrin wars. At Banja Luka in Bosnia they sang Be Ready, Komitadjis -and 30,000 of them waited at the railroad station for Branko Chubrilovitch...
...about time that such a reputable journal as TIME stopped reiterating that old gag about Henry VIII being the founder of the Anglican Church? . . . For example, in "Bureau oi Information" published in the Roman paper known as Our Sunday Visitor (issue of April 1940), the question "Who founded the Episcopal Church?" is answered in this way: "The Episcopal Church is a branch of the Anglican Church. . . . This Church was not actually founded by Henry VIII . . . but under Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth the present Church was formed." At last someone in Rome has discovered that Henry did not found...