Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million for spectacles, but Britons-many of whom previously fitted their own specs at Woolworth's-had run up the cost by a cool ?11 million over that. Bevan had been 550% off in his estimate. About a fifth of Britain's population had sat its turn in the dentists' chairs; the bill was ?12 million (250%) over Bevan's estimate...
...After 19 years, the Pittsburgh Bulletin Index quit. In its hectic lifetime, the B.I. had been at times a society chronicle, at times a muckraking political journal. But for most of the last 15 years, it had been a regional newsmagazine (peak circ. 12,000). The changes failed to turn it into a moneymaker. At the end, it was losing $1,000 a week...
...playing poker for $4,000 pots, Jones decided to appear. He testified that he had asked F.D.R. to write the memo, so that he could tell Moffett that RFC could not finance Ibn Saud. Nevertheless, Jones admitted that RFC had later advanced $425 million to Great Britain, which in turn gave Ibn Saud $51 million. This deal, Moffett claimed, saved Aramco at least $30 million...
...Wintergreen for President" will turn up on records for the first time, in the new Harvard Band album coming out in mid-March, Paul B. Finney '50, manager of the band, announced yesterday. The traditional tune did not appear in previous Band releases because the organization was afraid that other bands might steal the arrangement...
...letter to Miss Ragozin, Student Government President Joan Projansky '49 stated that both the Dean's Office and Council now back the recommendation which requires 1.) that every political club annually turn in a complete membership list, and 2.) that only the executive officers of political clubs have their affiliations recorded on the permanent Deans' Office files...