Word: surer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a warm sun, Stratford-upon-Avon was stirring to life last week. White swans and yellow punts rippled on the gentle blue Avon, and along its turfy banks, lovers lolled and plum trees flowered. But for the Warwickshire town's 13,000 citizens there was a surer sign of the season: the wheels were turning again in Stratford's $3,000,000-a-year tourist industry...
...fact was that a margin cut alone was not enough to send the market up; a margin cut from 100% to 75% had had little effect in February 1947. High taxes still kept many investors short of cash and those with cash were holding off until they were surer about the extent of the current business recession...
Although only the second and fifth of King Henry's wives* actually went from the bed to the block, English folklore (and the cinema) have stressed the Bluebearded side of his life. But history, with a surer stress on the important, credits Henry with a stroke more momentous than any ever struck by his executioners: he severed the Church in England from the Church of Rome...
...months there had been no cheaper, easier or surer way of entering the U.S. than just following the path of love & marriage. If an American G.I. married a foreigner the U.S. not only admitted her, but paid her passage as well. The wives of ex-G.I.s were also welcome. So were their fiancées-although, according to law, unmarried girls were hustled right back home if they didn't get their men to the altar in go days...
...used to be the mainstay of the humanities, are going in more for home economics and the newer vocational majors (recreation, social work). Meg Rothermel, the 1948 Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, is planning to be a social worker. Dean of Women Louise Troxell finds girls much franker and surer about what they go to college for these days: "To get a job, and a husband, and very possibly both...