Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stummel Snipers. In Germany, the cigaret had opened new vistas of financiering for both victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a fistful of marks. But at $140 a carton, no German could afford to smoke his cigarets. Instead, he sniped stummels (butts), which were valued from 3? upwards, depending on length...
...Rochester, Niagara, Yale, Colgate and Vermont, while Coach Earl Brown's strong Canisius club handed a ten-point defeat to the squad last Saturday. The Big Red's 21-point crushing defeat of Yale places Cornell temporarily in first place in the Ivy League alongside Pennsylvania, also a victor over the Elis...
Beethoven, Bach and Mozart weren't even in the running in Victor Records' ten classical best-sellers of 1946. Victor's ten high-selling albums...
Shaken Oysters. Dr. Victor L. Loosanoff, biologist of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, was also concerned with survival. He froze live oysters solid, kept them frozen ten months, thawed them out happy and healthy. But if he shook them while frozen, they thawed out dead. A frozen oyster, said Dr. Loosanoff, is mostly ice. Shaking breaks...
...Darling Clementine. Director John Ford's handsome horse opera with Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature (TIME...