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...another negotiation, Bing and up & coming Tenor Richard Tucker found themselves "only ?50 out." They left it to the flip of a coin; Bing won. By last week, moreover, almost all of the Met's supporting singers were snug in new contracts...
Last week Americana (the "villa" was officially dropped in the 19303), now a snug and thriving little (pop. 10,000) industrial town, opened a new $6,500,000 hydroelectric plant to power its mills, synthetic fertilizer factories, distilleries and farm-machinery assembly plant. Dr. Jones, who is also a city councilman, was one of those on hand to greet Sao Paulo's beefy, ambitious Governor Adhemar de Barros and the planeload of federal officials who flew in for the inauguration of the power plant...
...some of his volunteers to soak themselves in hot baths, then stand around in a drafty passage for half an hour undried, wearing bathing suits. Then they put on wet socks. In the first test, the chilled volunteers caught the cold virus more readily than those who were kept snug and warm. But, said Dr. Andrewes, "we were foolish enough to repeat this experiment-with a contrary result." The only positive finding: chilling alone produces no colds...
...British fear of German competition in export markets if the mark were devalued. François-Poncet argued with a straight face that he did not want the German people to lose faith in their money. Robertson, perhaps even more afraid of Germany's competitive potential, sat snug as François-Poncet carried the ball...
...butler-king of the castle; as he surveys the long table-the older servants mourning the dear departed, the housemaids coy and giggly-life takes on a new shape. "And the wicked shall flourish even as a green bay tree," cries the old housekeeper as Mr. Raunce, the notebooks snug in his pocket, rises to carve the fragrant joint...