Word: purrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally the Hal Roach studio cast her as a scantily clad cave woman in a picture called One Million B.C. She hit the jackpot. A pressagent nicknamed her the "Ping Girl," explained somewhat illogically, "she makes you purr." The money, the cars, the house, the. clothes, the adulation followed...
...station found its sound-proof walls crumbling about its ears, as the University announced plans to demolish Shepard Hall. When announcers thought about the creaky floors and the local cat who crept into the studios to purr insignificantly into the microphone, they thought moving out into new quarters might be a good idea. When the business staff began adding up the costs and subtracting from the Network's bank balance, they wondered how lucky they were after all. On May 11, 1945, WHCN vacated its Holyoke Street offices in time to save its equipment from the wreckers. The University made...
...Basketball League, or to give it its formal designation, the Eastern Intercollegiate League, approaches its mid-seasonal mark, Columbia's Light Blue Cagers look suspiciously as though they could purr their way to the championship...
Wartime experience, especially for Navy vets, pointed up the fascination and satisfaction soccer offers. These same veterans, returning in prodigious quantities, provide the kind and amount of material to make a coach purr with unashamed glee...
...stood atop the combine, guiding the pitch and height of its 16-foot reel as it chewed at the stalks. Now there were other sounds: the roar of Jack Anderson's tractor as he swung the smaller combine in behind his father's, and the low, steady purr of kernels pouring into the combines' bins...