Word: tab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...receiving all-star recognition from the Associated Press this weekend was fullback John Culver. This was not a matter of the varsity football team being ignored; it was probably just a case of ignorance. Harvard wasn't entirely shunned; Dick Clasby made the first team, and the A.P. did tab him "Harvard's one man offense...
...CRIMSON this week learned that within two years both the flannel suit and the tab or rounded shirt collar will have gone the way of the hair shirt and the diamond stick pin. Square merchants blame the recent influx of western students here for the increased demands for lighter shades in shits and sport coats as well as the swing to one and two-button models from the standard three-button style...
...pink, yellow and patterned shirts which may force the old guard to follow the new maxim: that no style-conscious man should wear a white shirt before the sun sets. In addition to the color change, veteran haberdashers in the square also predict a switch away from the tab and round collar. The merchants recall the previous short visits of these styles, pointing out that they have never lasted more than a season. Their current demise is tearfully anticipated and already provided for by the major shirt manufacturers...
...Three Decatur, Ill. doctors kept tab on 1,000 consecutive house calls, last week reported their principal conclusion in the A.M.A. Journal: one-fourth of the calls were unnecessary; the patients could just as well have come to the office. On strictly medical grounds, almost two-thirds of the home visits might have been classified as needless, the doctors added, but they took account of "other circumstances": a mother tied down with children and no babysitter; patients who needed emotional reassurance. Two-thirds of all home calls were to treat women...
...Moon. The cost of covering the coronation for both networks will be nearly $500,000, with General Motors bankrolling NBC and Willys-Overland helping to pick up the tab for CBS. For a while, network circles buzzed with rumors of prodigies: NBC was planning to transmit a live story of the coronation by bouncing TV images off the moon, and thence across the Atlantic; CBS was ready to hurl its film from London to the U.S. by the latest thing in guided missiles. As of this week, both networks were apparently ready to settle for plain jet planes...