Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week for their 32nd victory in a row, Bob Neyland's Volunteers-who went to the Rose Bowl last year, the Orange Bowl the year before-decided that they wanted to see gay New Orleans, voted to accept New Orleans' bid to the Sugar Bowl (with a $75,000 guarantee for their university...
Boston College, victorious in all its ten games this season, might have been invited to the Rose Bowl. But immediately after squeaking by Holy Cross (7-to-0) last week, B. C. jumped at the chance to match its tricks against Tennessee's in the Sugar Bowl...
...could let the price go up-say, to 14?. That would bring another 100,000 tons of driblets into the market from higher-cost mines. The chief pressure in behalf of this cause came from the Mountain States, which have already used pressure to get silver, wool and sugar profits with Government aid, have done handsomely by themselves in Washington. The chief argument against it: a 2? price increase would add $48,000,000 (for 1,200,000 tons) to the U. S. economy's copper bill next year...
...knew how to fight for home and honor. But the first round seldom decides a prize fight, and beneath little Greece's jubilation lay some grim facts. Greece faced woeful shortages of almost everything that it takes to fight a war. She lacked meat, wheat, oil, coal, sugar. Her chief sources of income-shipping and tourists-were no more. Her best customer of wine, olive oil and tobacco was Germany. Only Turkey and Great Britain can help her, and the latter has its hands full helping itself...
...fervent fans owe to these and other experts of the lens is Holly wood's well-guarded secret. But many an idol stays at the top of the heap because of their magic. They know they must avoid oblique angle close-ups of Clark Gable so that his sugar-bowl ears won't predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless...