Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mail-Order Model. She went to Northwestern University for a year and a half, then quit and got a job as a model. She posed for pictures for the Montgomery Ward catalogue. She went to New York, got a job playing Pearl in a road-show version of Tobacco Road...
Harvard spares: Abbot, Moseley, Minot, Allen, Ward, Huntington, Coulter, Fletcher...
...British exports, Britain set up a new control system in Paris to make sure only pounds bought at the official rate were used in Anglo-French trade. The Dutch and the Belgians were expected to follow the British lead-in effect, consign France to a monetary isolation ward...
...unexpected fratricide among reformists has proved a strategic godsend to the men intent on discrediting Plan E and proportional representation in the eyes of the electorate. PR forces a candidate before the entire city for re-election instead of allowing him the relative security of a small well-organized Ward. Such a plan constitutes a direct menace to professional politicos like Sullivan, Foley, Sennott, and Neville. Their political futures demand an inoperative government and a continuing stalemate. Although these men have had it within their power to elect one of themselves Mayor several times they have always split their vote...
...regular first-line duties bodes good for the offense as a whole, which has been crippled by constant shiftings in personnel since mid-years. The second line has improved steadily as a scoring threat to provide an effective alternate to the McKean-Key-Sears combination. And Larry Ward is permanently up from the jayvees to fill out the third line...