Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is glad news to thousands of parched communities from Kansas to Hawaii, who are having their first visions of rainsoaked land. Since 1946, when Dr. Vincent Schacfer of the General Electric Research Laboratories announced he had produced rain by scattering dry-ice particles in super-cooled clouds, experts and laymen alike have been enchanted by the prospect of tailor-made weather. Scores of amateurs have been up in the air ever since seeding clouds with everything from dry ice to corn flakes; one man claimed he fathered a storm with carbon dioxide from a fire extinguisher...
...would be within twelve minutes' driving time of 275,000 people who spend $500 million every year. Allison sold the idea to Allied Stores Corp. (owner of Bon Marche), then persuaded the Equitable Life Assurance Society to buy $6,000,000 worth of mortgages to help finance a super shopping center...
...considerable critical success for that casual age, it was six months before she told her father about it. With remarkable firmness for a girl of that time, she early refused to marry her father's candidate for her hand; later she missed a shot at a prayer-reading super-respectable Colonel Dig-by; finally at 41 she had enough gumption to marry an almost penniless French emigre. She was a strange mixture of the prudise and the unconventional, though admittedly far more of the former...
Some of Dillon's facilities give it the air of a super-hotel. It has its own laundry, a darning machine for ripped uniforms, a cleat machine for speedier changes of cleats, and a shoemaker's set-up, complete with shoemaker...
...Annex sophomore who visits Yale once a month sums up Harvard men as: "nice. After all, they are not in any way outstanding, except maybe super-intelligent. But who wants intelligence without 'savoir faire,' and this a Harvard man hasn...