Word: tippings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...layoff bodes no good for the Bolles' sweepswingers, the entire Seattle entry list is aboard the train and forced to accept the same conditioning hazard. For this reason, prior physical conditioning will play a heavier role than usual; and before entraining, Bolles happily stated that his boys were in tip-top shape...
...machine checks up on the behavior of blood vessels, which register emotional upsets by expanding and contracting abnormally. Tulane's Drs. George E. Burch and Clarence T. Ray, searching for a simple means of registering psychosomatic disturbances "objectively," used a "plethysmograph." The subject sticks his finger tip into a plastic cup, and the machine records the finger's alternate swelling and contraction by measuring the tiny changes in the cup's air volume...
...Tip. In Baltimore, Sun Police Reporter Pierce Hunter phoned a newsy item to his city desk: firemen were on their way to put out a blaze in the Sun's pressroom...
Alarum. In Brooklyn, three police cars rushed through the streets on a tip that a woman was "yelling for help," found a perspiring man changing an auto tire-with his voluble wife trumpeting advice...
...Thrift Stores territory was dropping off. The company called in Bracy, by then bored at separation from his beloved stores. He told Kroger: "Give me a salary plus percentage of sales and no limit." Kroger agreed and put Bracy in charge of the Carbondale territory, which included the southern tip (Egypt) of Illinois, slices of Kentucky and Missouri...