Word: pill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Otto Winkler. They were tired. There were no sleeping accommodations on T.W.A.'s Flight 3, due shortly on its way to Los Angeles. Winkler wanted to go to a hotel, sleep, take a train. Miss Lombard vetoed the idea, saying "I'll curl up and take a pill and pff I'll be asleep...
Later, the dome and telescope were swung onto Jupiter, but the planet appeared only as a very small pill, and the many moons which are its distinguishing feature were hidden...
Some Hope. For all these headaches, Detroit was offered only one pill: munitions orders, some $4,000,000,000 worth. From that, no motormaker expected to make the kind of money he was used to. Yet OPM promised to solve one problem by dishing its defense orders out in bigger hunks. Most of Detroit's munitions work so far has been supplementary to automobiles, done in small amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which...
Most people, however, took the rationing with great good humor, plotted how to include unrationed tablecloths, drapes, narrow ribbons in their couture. Looking forward to the worn ensembles, shiny elbows and frayed cuffs of the future, President Oliver Lyttelton of the Board of Trade sugar-coated the pill: "I know all the women will look smart. We men may look shabby. If we do, we mustn't be ashamed...
...Stillman, Cornell 41 7 16 8 .390 Reagan, Pennsylvania 47 12 18 4 .383 St'ckho'se, P'ns'lv'n'a 30 3 11 7 .367 Plumer, Princeton 41 9 14 6 .341 Kowslowski, Dartm'th 24 1 8 5 .333 Keyes, Harvard 36 6 11 2 .306 Pill, Columbia 49 12 15 8 .306 Finneran, Cornell 33 5 10 6 .303 Jones, Dartmouth 33 8 10 4 .303 Beinstein, P'nsylv'nia 47 8 14 5 .298 Kenzynski, P'nsl'v'nia 33 4 10 4 .303 Wood, Yale 31 5 9 4 .290 Clay, Harvard...