Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president of the National Mother-in-Law Club, carried a sign reading: " 'MOTHER IN LAW' IS GOOD ENOUGH...
Last week in England a vast debate began. Participants were about 3,000 debating societies, cooperatives, trade unions. Invited to chime in editorially were 300 newspapers throughout the world, including Mahatma Gandhi's Young India. Also invited was Dorothy Thompson. Lead-off debater was H. G. Wells, with an article in the London Daily Herald, whose owl-faced, idealistic Reporter Ritchie Calder started the whole thing. Subject: A New Declaration of the Rights...
...Thompson...
...Freshman bolo team defeated Artillery 15-3. Saturday night is the Commonwealth Armory. The '43 team consisted of Nate Greer, Bob White, and Rollin Thompson...
...other Varsity players were Jack Lewis, Winny White, and Warwick Stabler, while Bob White, Nate Greer, and Rollo Thompson played for the Yardlings. Greer scored three goals for the Freshmen and Thompson two; Stabler scored three times and White once for the Varsity...