Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philosopher would say: let the Board of Overseers provide a golden cage. But the sage would ask: how are the police going to catch it? Kurt Strasser, GSAS...
Radio. Directors of RCA promoted Frank M. Folsom, 54, from executive vice president to president, on the say-so of Chairman David Sarnoff, who has been doubling as president. A merchandising expert for over 30 years, Folsom was once a vice president of Montgomery Ward, served as assistant chief of Navy procurement for nearly two years during World War II, and joined RCA in 1944. Folsom, who will share top responsibility with Sarnoff (still chief executive officer), was full of beans about television. Said he: "Television is ... two years ahead of the most optimistic post-war forecasts . . . Today there...
...seem to be there merely for the record, their best known lines omitted. It is human enough to give Churchill top rating among the new entries with 9½ columns, and to give quotable Ogden Nash four, but in general | the space allotted to each "name" seems arbitrary, to say the least...
Such is the finding of the National Youth Panel which conducted a survey of 800 coeds from more than 400 colleges on the question of the American college male's dressing habits. The girls admire a "carefully careless" look and Harvrd has it, they say...
...came here. It could be better. Instead of Six Pine Trees there is only one decent pine tree. I can't find a Thoughtful Spot. People gape at me and say, "There yoy are." They are vulgar. Warn them to stand back...