Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether he can do as well Saturday night is something else again. Sparrow will be on hand. So will Sweden's Haakon Lidnan, Dillard (Baldwin Wallace), Nelson (NYU), Mitchell (Indiana), Alberghini (Northeastern), and a flock of lesser timber toppers. The 45-yard distance is short for Flint, who needs a lot of room in which to get rolling. He will have Dave Read as a running-mate...
...White House oath-taking ceremony a short time later, the five-star General of the Army laid aside all military regalia. He was clad in civillian clothes, as if to symbolize the peacetime problems he will so different from his wartime tasks...
...South, and it was not new to Robert Marion Strickland, 50, president of Atlanta's Trust Co. of Georgia (main Coca-Cola bank). But he had just been visiting a well-heeled farmer friend who had cleared and graded a 30,000-acre farm in a short time with heavy machinery. Bob Strickland decided on the spot to bring the benefits of machinery to the 144,000 little fanners in Georgia...
...Parrots. One of these jaunts took him to Samoa in 1890. There he met Robert Louis Stevenson, already nearing the end of his short, tuberculous career. "Stevenson and his wife were perched - like queer birds - mighty queer ones too. Stevenson has cut some of his hair; if he had not, I think he would have been positively alarming. He never seems to rest, but perches like a parrot on every available projection, jumping from one to another and talking incessantly. The parrot was very dirty and ill-clothed, being perhaps caught unawares, and the female was inTrather worse trim than...
Bell also mentioned the confusion which arose in November as the result of the short-lived experiment in dining halls, by which employees could receive their meals free and have a deduction made from their wages if they wished. Many of the student-waiters resented the change back to the old system, by which they must pay the full board bill. The change was necessitated by the difference in the number of hours and times that each students works, he said...