Word: papering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper the B.U. squad is easily the finest hockey team in the New England area. It has Ike Bevins now in his third official year (his fourth unofficially) playing in the goal along with what amounts to the very same set of forwards and defensemen as last year...
Meanwhile, the school administrator is so busy worrying about inkspot removers and paper towels or boning up on articles in administration journals ("Master Lists and Suggested Methods of Storage of Equipment for the Course in High School Physics") that he has no time to think about education either...
...Paint & Paper. And so he did. After months of tramping the streets, he found a ramshackle, three-story building that he thought he could afford to rent. He and his wife scrubbed it from top to bottom, then painted and papered it. Out of their thrifty life savings of $10,000 they equipped classrooms, dining room, kitchen, isolation ward and dormitories. Then they named the school Laradon Hall, after Larry and Donald...
...sometime businessman, author (Men and Power, Time Runs Out), radio commentator and onetime Scripps-Howard journalist. In a cease & desist order growing out of a three-year investigation, FTC charged that Taylor, doing business as Manhattan's Package Advertising Co., had created a monopoly in unpatented waxed-paper wrappers by licensing others, setting prices and dividing territories. Through it, said FTC, Taylor had collected $1,300,000 in royalties from 1931 to 1945 from some 30 manufacturers who thought that he held essential patents...
Actually, Taylor owned two patents covering certain methods of using advertising matter on waxed-paper bands, said FTC, but "none of the licensees . . . have ever used [Taylor's] methods." In short, the manufacturers who paid royalties to Taylor "were unfamiliar with the nature of the patents...