Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinks equally well of our fair city. Also present are the Riders of the Purple Sage who are still drifting along the tumbling tumbleweed searching for some cool, cool water. There is also a square dance on horseback, trick riding, and two girls doing trick roping in semi-Bikini type costumes. These interludes do not leave a great amount of time available for events, and since there are over a hundred contestants, there are a lot of actionless days for the cowboys...
Thies pointed out that most of the Coop's members were definitely interested in purchasing this type of merchandise, and that since the Coop existed for the benefit of its members, it ought to begin to sell such articles. The members present passed a motion that the directors of the Coop conduct an investigation into the feasibility of carrying the commodities...
...eight years, ever since Lamont Library opened its plate-glass doors back in 1949, a chaste little exhibition of printing techniques has reposed in the showcases of the First Level. There, an offensively well-proportioned "Specimen of Fairfield Type" has untiringly announced its vital message to the daily passers-by: "Consult the Eyes as Sovereign Judges of Form...
...Lawd becomes The Lord; he speaks grammatically now, no longer smokes 10? see-gars, is not addressed by irreverent gamblers any more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall...
Pincus and Gynecologist John Rock. In San Juan, 265 women promised to take a tablet a day for 20 days each month. About 200 did so. Thus protected through 1,712 menstrual cycles, none became pregnant "despite regularly practiced copulation with no other type of contraception." The women who missed one to five tablets had two pregnancies in 282 cycles, while among those who missed six or more tablets there were three pregnancies in 151 cycles...