Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capp's most recent use of Harvard in his strip pertained to the hallowed Dogpatch tradition of Sadie Hawkins Day. It seems that thirteen new bachelors were needed to participate in the annual race, and that someone in Dogpatch who could read saw in a newspaper that Harvard was awarding 2000 bachelors' degrees. Moonbeam McSwine, one of the more picturesque local characters, was dispatched to Cambridge to recruit the necessary bachelors. She met with surprisingly little resistance...
...Book of Judgement, passing on the value of anything available. This is especially unfortunate since their judgements are bad. For example, the section on the Lampoon declares, "With the return of Thresky the Golden Ibis to his perch above the building, the Poonsters launched into a year which saw the return of high quality humor to the magazine...
...president of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. since 1949, was named chief executive officer to succeed Hughston McBain, 56, who retired as chairman and chief executive after 15 years. Palmer has worked hand in hand with McBain in guiding Marshall Field through a postwar expansion period that saw the opening of three suburban stores, doubled total store space, pushed sales up some 35% (fiscal 1957: $219,011,532). A onetime professor of marketing at the University of Chicago, Palmer joined Field's in 1936, became president after he turned down an offer to become board chairman of Montgomery...
...people can live in decency and some dignity," now says: "I shrug; I laugh; I work. What else is there to do?'' Campbell traveled with Vasagam. another government agent, who was trying to implement the Gandhian ideal of equality for the untouchables. In a typical village he saw the higher castes stand sullenly by as Vasagam led untouchables into temples and restaurants. The next day he also saw that all utensils touched by the untouchables were cast away and broken, all places they had entered were scrubbed with milk and purified. Campbell agrees with Vasagam's sighing...
...Hoffman saw no prospect for any large scale violence in the present dispute, at least in continental France. He remarked that the present premier, Pierre Pflimlin, a Christian Democrat, has both "the energy and the short temper" he will need to cope with his present difficulties...