Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CRYSTALLINE VITAMIN D, one gram of which equals 49 million units of vitamin D, has been perfected by Pet Milk Co. chemists. One ounce will pep up 4½ million cans of evaporated milk...
...guinea pig of progressive education had become a fat house pet. Last week Columbia University's Teachers College decided to close down Manhattan's combined Horace Mann-Lincoln Schools...
Such spoofing is one way of placating his pet peeves, says Abe. But the "good things, like Oscar Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan and Christmas carols" he cannot kid. That still leaves him plenty of subjects...
...conquered me And who got my watch!") The audience roared, clapped, stamped, and the conductor had to oblige with two encores of the passage. The handful of Russians in the auditorium, well-aware that their habit of appropriating any watch they can lay their hands on is a pet German peeve, were more hurt than annoyed. Said one much-decorated Red warrior after the concert: "I did not think it was at all funny. If these people only knew that I shall be able to buy two cows with a good watch back home...
Since the steelworkers' union has no pet theories on ability to pay (see below), and since a steel strike would be ruinous and hence is almost inconceivable in the 1946 U.S. economy, there was a good chance that the fact-finding board could bring about a settlement simply as a catalytic agent. At week's end the board asked the companies and the union to reopen negotiations; it would probably soon look into the matter of steel prices...