Word: owl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purchase is a natural for United Drug, for Sontag's miniature department stores, grossing $15,000,000 yearly, are 90% noncompetitive with the 122 Owl Drug Co. stores which United now operates in California. It also marks the first expansion move for United under Dart. When Dart, ex-son-in-law of Walgreen Co.'s Charles R. Walgreen Sr., went to United in 1942 (TIME, May 11, 1942), he started to contract sprawling United. He telescoped three candy and confectionery plants into one and consolidated the company's stationery-manufacturing units, along with purchasing, advertising, financial...
Noted with dismay among the vagaries of the hurricane was its indiscriminate will in tearing down Harvard's shade trees but leaving the owl-eyed shack on Bow and Mt. Auburn without a scratch...
...primary Bennett Clark was snowed under. Reasons: 1) his own soggy inertia-he neglected his mail, several times stood up audiences that had come to hear him; 2) the opposition of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee; 3) the aggressive campaign waged at every creek fork by owl-eyed Roy McKittrick, the state's Attorney General...
...Beautiful Meal. Then King went visiting, first privately to an R.C.A.F. bomber group whose squadrons bear the nostalgic names Snowy Owl, Alouette, Thunderbird and Goose. Later, with Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and a retinue of correspondents in attendance, he ate an open-air lunch at a Canadian army camp. A foresighted quartermaster had sent to London for lobster to perk up the army menu. Cabled the Toronto Daily Star's Fred Griffin: ". . . the most beautiful meal I have eaten since leaving Canada nearly two years ago." The Prime Minister reviewed Canadian troops, made no speeches. In 1941, when...
Significant words were spoken last week by the businesslike head of a businesslike U.S. university. Said President Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with owl) of the University of California: "About 50 years ago, under the leadership of President Eliot of Harvard University, higher education swung over almost completely to the free elective system, and primary and secondary education transferred control of the school in large part from the teachers to the pupils. Students of all ages were encouraged to follow their highly efficient noses into snap courses and vocational courses, into courses that came in the afternoon and thus permitted long...