Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thereafter the police were reluctant to jail the holy men. Instead they piled demonstrators into a van (although many holy men had vowed always to walk and never to ride on wheels), drove them 20 or 30 miles out into the country. Some wondered if even a Jinnah would show the single-minded stubbornness of the sadhus; many of them plodded back to Delhi through the blistering heat (113°), chanting "Good understanding among all living beings...
Pulitzer Prizewinner Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England) got a license at 61 to marry Gladys Rice Billings, 60, remote in-law of Massachusetts Senator Leverett. Saltonstall, Songwriter, Milton Drake (Mairzy Doats) was sued for a separation by his lamzy divey, Betty. Dorothy Parker, 53, most-quoted lady with the '30s, was sued for divorce by Fellow Writer Alan Campbell, who complained that they had become strangers. And Mickey Rooney, 24, was sued for separate maintenance by wife Betty Jane (Miss Birmingham 1944), who said she was dissatisfied with her $10,000-a-year settlement after learning...
...kind of kid the major leagues go after: big, cool and hardworking, with a good pair of hands. The scouts, baseball's ivory hunters, have seen plenty of high-school wonders flop in the big time-but Bobby Feller was only 17 when scouts found him in Van Meter, Iowa, and they always hope to find another. Among Bob Hansen's technical skills: a blinding fastball with which he mixes a tantalizing change of pace, a wide-breaking curve, a .461 batting average...
Thiouracil is a synthetic drug which slows metabolism, the rate at which the body burns its fuel-food. Recently Dr. George Van Der Noot and others of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station mixed 0.25% of this biological fire extinguisher in the feed of gilts and barrows (young female and castrated male hogs). The results were cheering to farmers. The slowed-down hogs invested their food in fat instead of burning it up in rooting. For each 100 Ibs. of weight gained, they ate 27.5% less feed than hogs that were deprived of thiouracil...
Pulitzer Prizewinner Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England) got a license at 61 to marry Gladys Rice Billings, 60, remote in-law of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall. Songwriter Milton Drake (Mairzy Doats) was sued for a separation by his lamzy divey, Betty. Dorothy Parker, 53, most-quoted lady wit of the '303, was sued for divorce by Fellow Writer Alan Campbell, who complained that they had become strangers. And Mickey Rooney, 24, was sued for separate maintenance by wife Betty Jane (Miss Birmingham 1944), who said she was dissatisfied with her $10,000-a-year settlement after...