Word: refered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pensions, the frosting on the cake is a lot thicker than your article tells. Some time ago I listened to a county welfare official explain that the $3,500 in real property and the $1,500 in other assets over & above the car, furniture, jewelry, etc. refer to assessed value and are not even remotely connected with market value. I believe there are some counties in California where market values are as much as ten times the assessed values...
Following Sir Frederick comes the Embassy No. 3 man, genial, 39-year-old Counselor Dennis Allen. He may refer...
...prepared for was the astonishingly tender look which TV's normally harsh eye gives Jeanne at the piano. A tall, earnest girl with no pretensions to beauty, Jeanne Bargy on television somehow becomes small, sadly romantic and nicely sexy. Her songs (the blues in Blues by Bargy refer more to her voice than her repertory) are plaintive ballads; her delivery and pace are a restful contrast to TV's frequently scratchy and perfervid fare, her touch on the keyboard deft, efficient and unobtrusive...
Harvard of the East meets the "Harvard of the West' on the gridiron in Palo Alto, for that is how boastful Westerners refer to Stanford University. West of the Mississippi, Stanford in fact carries all the social and intellectual prestige that Harvard has in the East But at opposite ends of the continent, these universities represent opposite ways of college life. The gay, outdoor, coed, magazine-type collegiate life dominates Stanford. Often called a playboy's school, Stanford presents a happy blend of good comradeship, rural atmosphere, and high scholarship...
Would it not be better to refer to our "recession" as a "return to normal" after the unusual postwar highs . . . ? Many businessmen, wishfully thinking, seem to have taken these highs for normal business and are now crying because the balloon has burst as we all knew it would...