Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinks Yale may sell all its 42,000 tickets and the 4,000 it got back from the H.A.A. too. But Yale's ticket selling has been about ten per cent below the normal level for this whole season, Perkins said...
...Sigma Chi house disgruntled brothers held a mock liquidation sale (see cut) in which most of the bottles were empties. The Daily Californian complained that the new rule "will mean a whole bottle instead of a drink. We'll just have to do our drinking parked up in the hills ..." Moreover, cried the student editors, by neglecting to discuss the decision with representatives of student groups, the administration had failed to treat students "like adults...
...everybody was as happy about the whole thing as the Sundays' proprietors and their readers in the United Kingdom (pop. 50,000,000) seemed to be. In the House of Commons recently, Socialist M.P. John Haire rose to deplore the increase of journalistic "speculation, sex, sensationalism and sheer lies," and Dr. John R. Rees, one of Britain's most eminent psychiatrists, stigmatized some of the Sundays, which he did not specify, as "chambers of horrors...
...would go along with some sort of company pension plan. Only 6% think the company should bear the entire cost. As for federal pensions, 89% would rather install company plans than pay for a major expansion of the Government's Social Security program. Growled One Midwest manufacturer: "Our whole system is degenerating to the point where something for nothing is a fad . . . The mad scramble is to be one of the fortunate few ... on the receiving end . . . Union leaders are playing the role of a master of ceremonies on a giveaway program...
...conversation got lively she was apt to interrupt with, "Would you mind, all of you, finishing your soup before it's cold?" or "Don't forget that the domestics have their rights. They wish to remove the dishes. . ." When Venus dropped down to earth with Mars, the whole godly clan gave her dirty looks. Vulcan ran to father Jupiter like a spoiled brat crying, "I want Mars to keep his hands off her! If he doesn't, I'll break his neck!" Actually, Vulcan had nothing to fear from Mars. The god of war was better...