Word: older
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week) to get a picture of the Bavarian Alps in his "love-wanted" ad. It ran: "What fraulein would like to go on a two-week holiday to Bavaria by automobile, all expenses paid? Congenial and well-to-do gentleman seeks blonde at least five feet tall, not older than 23. She must not wear glasses." Stumm received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm reported that he had had a fine time. The girl had turned out to be quite a skier. Where...
...handicap: it has had to get along without its own theaters, which older, richer studios have found to be a cushion against bad pictures and production losses. Now, with the Federal Government winning its campaign to force bigger companies to divorce production from theater ownership, E.L.'s experience in licking the handicap has a chance of turning into an advantage...
...mothers would knit for us. When we knocked the yarn apart, we'd pull it back together with black tape." Stuffy did his share of the knocking. In fact, his nickname resulted from it. Whenever the youngster would make a hit or come up with a hard grounder, the older boys he played with would yell, "That's the stuff...
...almost three years, twelve-year-old Martin had been living in hospitals or convalescent homes. He is back home now in the fifth-floor, $44-a-month Manhattan walk-up apartment with his mother & father, grandmother, younger sister and older brother. Martin still suffers from rheumatic heart disease (caused by rheumatic fever), is still bedfast, still needs the kind of medical care that hospitals give. He is getting that kind of care now at home...
Whipple became famous last year for his work on the Dust-Cloud Hypothesis, the modern theory on how the solar system developed. His theory has virtually replaced the older Planetary and Nebular Hypotheses, which were proved implausible several years...