Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Leach's cogent presentation of the case for militant aid cannot be disposed of so easily as Professor Elliott's childish toy-soldier complex. The Law Professor said that if England is defeated, the Nazis will penetrate South American via the barter route, following up economic with political infiltration, and setting up puppet regimes in state after state until the Panama Canal is threatened and the United States is left helpless, alone, and fatally vulnerable...
...rules, no pre-season practice. Their coaches are usually borrowed from basketball or track. Ken Loeffler, Yale coach for the past five years, was hired originally because of the basketball teams he turned out at Geneva College. His record with Yale basketballers is nothing to boast about, but his Toy Bulldog football teams have lost only six games in five years...
...years whooping moppets have whanged rubber and composition automobiles into other toy automobiles, table legs, baseboards. Thought many a fenderdented father: "If our car were only like that!" dismissed the wish as fantastic...
Mana-Zucca was born Mana Zuckerman, in New York City. She was musically prodigious. Her pressagents claim that, on her third birthday, she furiously demolished a toy piano because it had no F sharp and she could not play The Last Rose of Slimmer on it. Mana-Zucca made her debut as a pianist at eight with the New York Symphony under Dr. Walter Damrosch. Year later she published her first composition...
...Ross has rubbed shoulders with many a leper. But lightning, not leprosy, set him off on his mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a mission school in Liberia and was drowned while fishing for his scholars' supper. On the day that Emory Ross got a letter telling him of Kenoly's death and asking him to take his place, he was offered a good job in a bank. For once lightning struck twice...