Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enclosed you will find a copy of a letter sent to Dr. Pusey regarding the housing problem in Cambridge, specifically with regard to Negroes and other minority groups...
...months Gerard Mignone, 38, an unemployed Brooklyn milkman, had been salivating at the very sight of NBC's gaudy giveaway, The Price Is Right. The show promises a wondrous pack of prizes to any shrewd appraiser in the home audience who submits (via postcard) their correct prices. Mignone sent in hundreds of cards, became obsessed with the show. To check on prices, he organized an intricate filing system, hounded the Department of Commerce and called manufacturers all over the country. Said he: "I got a phone bill I'm afraid to show my wife. I spent $200 tracing...
...until old, bold American Express three months ago dealt itself into the card game, enlisted the aid of its worldwide contacts to drum up members. Through banks, American Express mailed applications to 8,000,000 depositors-people who obviously have some money to spend. President Ralph T. Reed also sent personal letters to 22,000 corporation presidents. More than 300 American Expressmen started knocking on doors of executive suites all round the U.S. to sell the credit card (charge: $6 per year for initial card, $3 for other members of the same firm). To bolster its membership, American Express bought...
...encounters. There are anecdotes in the grand manner-such as old Sarah marching into the law courts to forbid the sale of one of the Duke's presentation swords, crying: "Shall I suffer the sword which my lord would have carried to the gates of Paris to be sent to the pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes of the ' stamina and courage that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer...
Particularly encouraging was the team's performance on defense against passes and end sweeps, which in recent years have becom almost chronic Crimson weaknesses. Once thwarted in the middle of the line, Tufts sent a few feelers around the flanks but was quickly discouraged in this line of attack by the varsity's ends, who reacted outward nicely, keeping themselves between the sideline and the ball carrier...