Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SINCE I AM ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE "INDUSTRY" MENTIONED AS CONFESSING TO A FAILURE TO SELL MORE PERFUME TO AMERICAN WOMEN, PERMIT ME TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. THE PROBLEM IS NOT TO SELL WOMEN BUT TO SELL MEN, WHO BUY 75% OF ALL PERFUME WORN BY WOMEN. MEN BUY THE PERFUME THEY WANT WOMEN TO WEAR, AND WOMAN WOULD DO WELL TO STAY WITH THAT PERFUME AS LONG AS SHE STAYS WITH...
...else at the White House got a vicuña coat? Adams: "Well, now, let's get the thing on the record. My superior officer at the White House never received a coat from this gentleman." (But Press Secretary Jim Hagerty stated that Ike did receive some vicuña cloth from Goldfine in 1956, gave it to a friend...
...Record. In Dayton, called upon to read the minutes of the last meeting of the Third Street Baptist Church's Sunshine Circle for Young People, substitute Secretary Sharon Parker stood up, said "20 minutes, six seconds," sat down...
This book was literally dug up. It is a translation of records that were scribbled in Yiddish and Hebrew. They were sealed (in a milk can) and buried at a secret point in the ghetto. Not until 1946 did searchers find them in bombed Warsaw's featureless rubble. The man who originally compiled, wrote and preserved the records was named Emmanuel Ringelblum, a teacher of history; he recalls Noach Levinson, hero of John Mersey's bestselling novel, The Wall, who was supposed to have preserved archives of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1939 Ringelblum was safe in Switzerland...
Hedge Hopper. In Hot Springs, Ark., when State Trooper Glen Minton stopped a speeder and asked him why he was displaying on his windshield the campaign stickers of two rival candidates for municipal judge, the man said: "With my traffic record, I can't afford to be wrong...