Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shop Talk. In Great Bend, Kans., the Rev. Raymond Knowles improved parking conditions for himself and staff after he replaced "Reserved" and "No Parking" signs in the East Methodist Church's lot with signs reading: "Thou Shalt Not Park...
...staged in Peking. Shanghai, Canton and other cities. Despite warnings against tight dresses and too much "making up," sales of brassieres and Imperial Concubine face powder (named for a famous beauty of the Tang dynasty) shot up. A government official even spoke of "the beauty of curves." A dress shop opened last week in Peking with 3,000 spring dress varieties on sale...
...courses into entertainments in the vain effort to make learning seem as much fun as dancing or basketball. When that fails, they add more and more practical courses. But chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop. "If students raise Cain in algebra, they break tools and bore holes in workbenches and cut off fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that...
...they hid in a clump of trees between Rehovoth and the border. Those captured proved no supermen. They said they had been trained in Cairo, dispatched on their murderous errands by the Egyptian army intelligence chief at Gaza. Moaned one 18-year-old: "My father owns a tobacco shop, and he begged me not to become a fedayee. Oh, how I wish I had listened...
Right now, his latest machine is on workbench in the Psychology Department's machine shop in the basement of Memorial Hall. It is better described as a device than as a machine. It consists of a small wooden box with several small windows in the top, and a lever in front. Inside, there is maze of pulleys, levers, and chains and an aluminum disk about the size of a phonograph turn-table. It's really very simple, however...