Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rejection Slip. In Tulsa, car thieves abandoned G. W. Davis' automobile with a note to the owner: "This will learn you to keep the keys in your pocket . . . [but] please have the low gear repaired for our future use...
...stepped forward to deny that careless use of DDT is dangerous. At least six cases of fatal DDT poisoning have been reported; numerous nonfatal cases are on record. DDT has, indeed, been getting into dairy products: the Department of Agriculture recently issued a directive recommending that farmers stop using the chemical in dairy barns, on milk cows, or on fodder destined for consumption by milk cows...
...Folger's players, who had to use the Folger's boiler room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...
According to the bill any use of a quota system or written and oral inquiries concerning the race, religion, color, or national origin of an applicant for admission constitutes an unfair educational practice...
Competitors will be handicapped according to the type of two-wheeler they use. The race will begin at 10 a.m., but no announcement of a pact with the local gendarmerie has been made...