Word: perk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perk Up. The ailing domestic airlines perked up a bit. In the twelve months which ended June 30, reported CAB, the 16 domestic carriers had trimmed their losses from $22,435,489 in 1947 to $15,494,310. In the profitable (spring) second quarter, they had rung up a $3,262,837 net v. $2,754,724 last year. As usual, Eastern Air Lines, Inc. was the healthiest; and last week it reported a nine-month net of $762,578 v. $409,809 in the 1947 period...
...graduation from Vassar, Miss Mac has known quite a few jobs, ranging from a teacher in grade school to wartime director of the WAVES (TIME, March 12, 1945). At 36, she was Wellesley's second youngest president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...
Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching. In 1942, when war industries were begging for skilled workers, the Chicago school board looked around for a man who could perk up down-in-the-mouth Dunbar. The principal at Wendell Phillips High School, where Campbell was dean of boys, gave him a resounding recommendation: "An artist in human relations...
...Perk," as he is informally known, is a Harvard-man's Harvardman in the best traditions of the gentlemen and scholar. Though he has not had a foot in a stirrup in twenty years, he speaks reminiscently of his experiences on the range. The impression given by his large library of the works of distinguished Englishmen is betrayed by an equestrian symbol-a pair of tarnished spurs which hang in proud retirement above the fireplace. His nautical blood put him on Harvard's first one hundred and fifty pound crew which he captained in his senior year. But the crew...
Crusaders Perk...