Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the long winter, successful crews add trophies to the collection accrued in the varsity lounge, where the awards won at Henley, England and Red Top at Yale are carefully preserved. Banners and cups adorn the room, and old crew members returning to the lounge may look through scrap books for stories of their younger, more heroic days. Each spring, visiting crews also redecorate the boat house; some of them specialize in painting a huge "Y" on the front piazza, others prefer "M.I.T...
Special Delivery. In Middletown, Ohio, Letter Carrier Webster Newton opened a sidewalk mailbox to collect the outgoing mail, found a can of washing powder, four cans of cold beer, $11 in change, two keys, and 28 envelopes filled with scrap paper...
...cars, whereas materials have been allotted for only 1,250,000. Automen have had their hands full getting enough metals for even that many cars. With metals still tight, a bigger test will come when & if ceilings on copper, steel and aluminum are abolished. Since scrap prices are rising, the primary metals are sure to follow if the ceilings come...
...Three months ago, the Detroit board of commerce, of which Ford and other automakers are members, also came out with a proposal to scrap all tariffs, said that free trade is "inevitable" (TIME...
Between the first and last Lincoln autographs, there were thousands of letters, speeches, business notes and miscellaneous jottings. In 1924 a group of Lincoln enthusiasts known as the Abraham Lincoln Association dedicated themselves to the staggering task of tracing down every scrap. Now with the publication of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (in 3.300 sets-1,000 sold before publication), they consider the job 99% complete. The missing 1%: items owned by holdouts who refuse to cooperate, a few papers that have turned up since the work was printed and whatever (perhaps) may turn up in the future. Satisfied...