Word: tiffin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daniels, suddenly fearful, railed against West's wild stupidity. But West was still snarling with braggadocio a few minutes later when they spotted a perfect getaway car-a big Dodge haulaway truck with four new Studebakers on its rear decks-parked in some trees near the town of Tiffin. The truck driver was asleep. West said: "I'll take care of him," and yanked out his pistol again...
...last month in Hilo (pop. 23,000), on the island of Hawaii, a 35-year-old ex-G.I. named Woodrow Dodds, from Tiffin, Ohio, found himself out of a job. He had been one of no workers discharged when the island's only modern laundry closed. As dirty laundry piled up in Hilo's houses, hotels and hospitals, Dodds got an idea...
Measuring these skills has been largely the work of two scientists-Ophthalmologist Hedwig Stieglitz Kuhn* of Hammond, Ind., and Dr. Joseph Tiffin, Purdue psychologist. For 20 years Dr. Kuhn has studied all sorts of eyes used and misused in the vast Calumet industrial region south of Chicago. Five years ago Dr. Tiffin began to correlate visual skills and job analysis. This week, as a result of their work, the optical firm of Bausch & Lomb announced that it was offering a new visual service to industry, using a new instrument, the Ortho-Rater...
Local gendarmerie and fire-fighting forces joined in the exercises, cheered on by the livelier segment of the Adams House population. Tiffin a la Tondelayo was served and all guests departed at 11, assuring their hosts that they had had a simply delightful time...
...white man's burden in Equatorial Africa (see cut) consists principally of Tondelayo (Hedy Lamarr). She comes from the jungle wearing a "lurong" (press-agentese for an alluring sarong), rolls the whites of her eyes, and in no time at all is saying "Tondelayo make you tiffin." Only the tone-deaf will think she means...