Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, last April, Alberta's great oil bonanza dumped a derrick on Bill Mulligan's 320 acres smack behind the tumbledown Mulligan shack. Unlike 99% of Alberta's farmers, Paw Mulligan held mineral rights to his land.* By last week his windfall had reached $40,000 or $50,000-he hadn't bothered to figure it out exactly. Besides, most of it had already been spent on a whale of a good time...
...family affair and people took their denominational differences more seriously. "[Today] we have the strange spectacle . . . of people refusing to worship together, while not knowing just why . . . [In the old days] the tobacco chewers always did their spitting at sermon climaxes, the juice hitting the floor with a resounding smack as a sort of substitute for a cheer...
Once it is established that we're going to have the Club--right smack on Mt. Auburn Street--there is a basis on which its construction can be justified. Just after the present Varsity Club was built (by Burr, in 1912), Harvard experienced an upsurge in intercollegiate athletics, and the new Club is being built with this in mind. It will serve to focalize interest in College athletics, as a place where alumni can meet players, where visiting teams collegiate and scholastic--can be entertained. It will increase interest in Harvard sports to a point where further-donations, enough...
...Worker man was asking a question, and the President thought he ought to know. Another annoyance was the reporters' habit, in unlimbering their fountain pens, of splattering ink on the President's prized, deep-piled green rug. Several months ago, someone emptied a whole penful of ink smack on the rug's presidential seal...
...sort of ad that would make any schoolteacher blink, yet there it was, smack in the middle of the Philadelphia school system's spring catalogue of in-service courses for teachers. "Are you interested in how you look . . .? Would you care to glimpse some of the newest fashions in clothes? Of hair styles becoming to different types . . .? Does your voice have that quality that makes pupils want to listen...