Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exercised the broadcasting industry's biggest bull session, the Institute for Education by Radio. Held annually at Columbus, Ohio, since 1930 under the sponsorship of Ohio State University, the conference's first twelve meetings served mainly as occasions for bestowing honors, discussing knacks and know-how, airing pet peeves...
...Indian Army. There are wiry, highland Gurkhas, who once each year must cut a wild goat in half with one swoop of a broad kukri; black-bearded Sikhs, whose proud name stands not for race or religion, but for a blood brotherhood of warriors; turbaned Pathans (pronounced pet-ahns). Indians like to quote the current figures on their Army: 1,000,000 men, "well equipped...
...Early in the week San Francisco's shortwave station KGEI had Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright broadcast a message of good cheer to "Skinny," accompanied by three wagging woofs from the General's pet Labrador Retriever. When the end of Bataan came, KGEI's "Freedom for the Philippines" rose to the occasion with a solemnity by which the grim survivors on Corregidor were moved to tears: "The world will long remember the epic struggle the Filipinos and Americans put up. . . . But what sustained them through all these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical...
...scientist, scholar, writer or artist who is awarded one, a Guggenheim Fellowship usually means a year of extracurricular leisure to work unhurriedly on a pet project. But last week the Guggenheim Foundation, awarding 82 fellowships for the coming year, found it necessary to warn its fellows that this is a year when leisure cannot be guaranteed; its awards are subject to interruption for calls to Government service. Example: Stanford University's Dr. Merrill Kelley Bennett, who went to Honolulu last summer as a Guggenheim fellow to study food, wound up as a statistician in the Food Control office, keeping...
...manufacturer, of course, calls his "pet retail accounts" to tell them about the approaching curtailment, "of course" adds that if the buyer is smart he will immediately knock down the merchandise manager or the boss if necessary, and get some extra folding money to put into inventories. Then, after more "secret" Washington powwows, the proposed restrictions "become known to even the obscure assistant buyer of The Big Store of Podunk" and manufacturers find themselves "forced into annoying and exasperating off-season production" (e.g., women's fall coat production in January and February was 30% above a year...