Word: tot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schlesigner concluded, "All this adds up tot he fact that under Truman's leader-ship, the United States has undergone a diplomatic revolution, occupying the place in world affairs which England long held and being the organizer and director of the opposition of the free peoples to Soviet imperialism...
Couperin's Premier Lecon de Tencbres, sung by soprano Helen Boatwright, was not a total success. The music too often bore no relation tot he words (excerpts from the Book of Jeremiah.) Still, there were many powerful moments such as the final plea to Jerusalem, which is repeated five times with different treatment each time. Miss Boatwright may not have the strongest voice in the world, but it is clear and accurate, and she sang with real comprehension of the Latin text...
...businessmen the world over, the products of National Cash Register Co. are as familiar as Coca-Cola. National machines tot up their bills, figure the payrolls, keep charge accounts straight. They are operated by Eskimos in the Arctic Circle, by Fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa; they are packed by llamas in the Andes, by camel cart in Pakistan. And the machines ring up sales in shillings, drachmas, piasters, kroner, yen, francs and even Russian kopecks...
...healthy, National has free noontime movies for its workers, a cafeteria that serves up hot lunches at an average cost of 56? apiece. It maintains a 166-acre picnic ground near the Dayton plant, which has a swimming pool, softball diamonds, boating lagoon, archery, miniature golf, tennis and a "Tot Lot," with attendant, for the kids. If a National employee wants an auto, hunting or fishing license, National helps him get it. If he needs legal advice, National supplies it free. For a $1 fee, a National employee can sign up for night classes ranging from blueprint reading to typing...
...replace chronic alcoholics." The witnesses also objected that TV advertising plays up the creamy frothiness of beer and ignores its alcoholic content. Dr. J. Raymond Schmidt, of the International Order of Good Templars, expressing fear of the snob appeal of TV, told a pathetic story of "a little tot who says to her mother, 'Why don't you drink such-and-such a beer like the fashionable ladies do?'" Questioning developed that Crusader Schmidt did not have too much firsthand knowledge of the effects of TV on tiny tots: he admitted he has neither...