Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like millions of working girls, tilt-nosed Betty Oliver was tired of waiting for heaven to protect her. At 34, she was bored with her job and with herself. In her drab little office in Dallas, one day in 1945, she began scrawling doodles in her shorthand notebook. They became the first crude dummies of a magazine for girls like herself. Last week her Business Girl, launched with $7.50 capital, was out of the red and she was ready to ask her stockholders to recapitalize at a round...
Real as a gob of spit, as antiseptically moral as the Ma Perkins program, the surprisingly adequate film version of "The Hucksters" gives us jug-eared, musk-exuding Clark Gable, mounting a full-tilt attack on Inane Advertising; the picture is at the same time, however, the unconscious exemplar of much that is awry in the cinema industry...
Intramurals and more intramural will form the core of the summer athletic program, and Director Dolph Samborski predicted yesterday that within two weeks, House softball and baseball leagues will be going full tilt. Freshmen will be eligible for all competition...
...punched through a 10 to 3 victory, as hundreds got their gridiron thrills vicariously by watching electric "play-by-play" scoreboards at strategic places throughout the University. the Brown Bear, next week, could not contain the team that had been clawed by the Tiger, and in the pre-Yale tilt, the Crimson triumphed...
...course, is our greatest foe, and the medical department gives out about 600 sets of cold tablets a month. Miss Ryerson is constantly removing bits of Manhattan from our eyes, fixing people who get hit on the head by file drawers, patching up the bruised elbows of those who tilt their chairs back too far, mending fingers that get caught in doors and stapling machines...