Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attorney General wants to put the A. & P. out of business because it sells good food too cheap yet absorbs the difference out of profits. Maybe the American people do not necessarily feel like "fugitives from a chain store...
...have had more cows' tails wrapped around my ears in fly time than any other Senator." boasted North Dakota's Milton Young. "I am sure that I have custom-threshed more hours than all the rest of the members put together, and no doubt spike-pitched more hours than any other Senator. I doubt if more than a dozen members of the Senate even know what spike-pitching means." Other Senators might indeed be less knowing than Wheat Farmer Young about custom-threshing and spike-pitching.-But they did know plenty about the wants and needs...
Then at half-time, the University Band, celebrating its 30th birthday, put on an act. Actually, there were two bands: one made up of contemporary musicians, tailored in red and numbering 140; the other consisting of 85 Band members of the last 30 years, white-shirted, nostalgic, and balding...
Earl Blaik put his first-string offense in again at this point and it got two more touchdowns before the game ended...
...Almost put out of business, by the failure of the Virginia concert trip in 1947, the band came back in time to make every game away during the 1948 season. On their way back from Virginia the musicians had played on the capital steps in Washington, almost missing their train home...