Word: pockets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes after a take-off from Montgomery Airport, the right motor of an Eastern Air liner bearing him and ten other passengers to Atlanta caught fire, shook off. Fire licked along the wing. Bracing himself for the inevitable crash Passenger Connolly took from his coat pocket the rosary his convent-school daughter, Mary Jac, 13, gave him just before he left New York...
When, in September, this swain invited "the one girl" to the Princeton game, he drew from his pocket a $20 bill, and to her great amazement, neatly tore this sizable piece of pocket lettuce in to equal halves and gave one to her, keeping the other himself. He then explained politely that neither half would be redeemable without the other, entreated her not to send it to him in spite of any pleas he might make in the future, and depositing a kiss on her perplexed brow, departed for Cambridge...
...words) of current books, about eight shorter condensations or excerpts from other works. Book Digest pays publishers $100 for long condensations, runs no advertisements, claims 50,000 circulation. Publishers liked the idea, for they had noted increased sales of such books as Reader's Digest, pocket-size colossus, digested each month...
Last week Dr. Sharp began to build a fourth LIFE Camp on a real frontier-a pocket of virgin forest only 68 miles from Manhattan. The site: a 1,000-acre tract in the Kittatinny Mountains of northern New Jersey. Part of an estate given to Lord Rutherford by King George III in pre-Revolutionary times, the tract was presented to LIFE Camps by anonymous donors. It abounds in deer, wild fruit and nuts, has a 40-acre lake (Mashi-pacong), is surrounded by 25,000 acres of State parks and forests. With stone and timber on the land...
...past, been a black sheep of the social sciences. Popularly criticized by undergraduates, it has been found wanting generally in organization and integration, in cooperation between lecturer, reading matter, and section men. Favorite plaint was its inflation of Harvard Square bookseller's stocks at the expense of student pocket-books...