Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman two-mile curtain raiser, scheduled for 3 o'clock, went off in routine fashion: Cornell defeated its three rivals...
...Next day the world learned that the evacuation of Åndalsnes was only the curtain raiser for the abandonment by all Allied forces of three-fifths of the land and six-sevenths of the people they had only a fortnight before gone to save. What Mr. Chamberlain did not say was that from the Allies' other main beachhead, Namsos, north of Trondheim, the balance of the Northwestern Expeditionary Force fled Norway that same day and night. The Allies had intended to pinch Trondheim from north and south. With the south prong of the pincers demolished, to press with...
...business of hatching baby chicks has become such a fine art that it is now possible for hatcherymen to ship their customers broods made up either of all-pullet chicks or all-cockerel chicks. Formerly, the poultry raiser had to take pot luck with his chicks, which were usually divided 50-50 as to sex by Mother Nature...
There he proved himself a builder and money-raiser. Small, slight, Archbishop Stritch with his grey hair looks older than his 52 years. He walks a great deal (often at night), reads rapidly, copiously, sleeps later than most prelates. (He rose at 9:30 the day his appointment was made public.) Archbishop Stritch has been in Milwaukee since 1930, has greatly endeared himself to the city as a charitarian. Says he, "As long as two pennies are ours, one of them belongs to the poor." He has let relief needs supersede those of his Cathedral, partly destroyed by fire...