Word: shankses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanks' Mare. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during a week-long bus strike, a cobbler reported a 400% jump in business.
In 1853, W. Shanks, an Englishman of infinite patience and notable staying power, made his first bid for fame: he published the value of TT* carried from its normal 3.1416 to 530 decimal places. Several years later he pushed the frontier to 607, and in 1873 retired undefeated at 707...
Such being the case, who among us "shall cast the first stone?" E. CHAT. SHANKS
Selective Clientele. In Brooklyn, N.Y., S. Baron, ready for a vacation, wrote to a camp: "Please furnish information regard ing weekend facilities at your summer camp." The resort: the Army's Camp Shanks.
Sergeant Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion now doing physical fitness and morale work at Camp Shanks, N.Y., philosophized: the war has "got to do some good. ... If everybody come out of the war with one new friend like he never had before, that's a lot." Reminded of the...