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Have Tools; Will Travel. In Manhattan, the United Nations employees' newspaper quoted the appraisal of a personnel interviewer on a job applicant: "Definitely not to be considered; carried a dagger at waist; sloppy appearance; returned . . . carrying gun at waist."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

"He looks sloppy in the ring. But he is a good fighter," says Patterson. "They say Marciano is the fighter who can't be hurt. But if you want to beat him you have to fight him and make him back up. I think of Rocky Marciano a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Next Champ | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Until a year ago, the regular patrons of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad were abnormally contented commuters. Unlike many of their brethren who traveled on other lines, the New Haven crowd (35,000 suburbanites on the New York end, 22,000 in Boston) liked their trains; when other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: All the Livelong Day | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

But Dartmouth dominated a sloppy second period, holding the varsity scoreless and cutting its lead to 3-1. Dave Chapin scored the goal at 1:54.

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Revamped Crimson Six Defeats Dartmouth, 6-2 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Self Condemned, by Wyndham Lewis, showed England's most effective literary curmudgeon banging away at the shoddy thinking and sloppy living by which contemporary man is surrounded.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FICTION | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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