Word: although
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...less than one quarter of one per cent. Of the 47,000,000 people in the United Kingdom, the Führer's assaults had killed up to Oct. 31 only 14,700. Accordingly, Winston Churchill last week proposed no immediate Government venture in blanket wartime life insurance, although it was rumored in Whitehall that Treasury civil servants are working up a draft of such a bill...
...Jell-O script is turned out by a 33-year-old wag named Bill Morrow, whose salary is $1,500 a week, and his assistant, Eddie Beloin, who makes $560 less. Although the gags are theirs. Benny has a lot to do with shaping up the pro gram. Each Monday he gets together with his writers either in the bedroom of his 15-room French-Colonial mansion in Beverly Hills or in his Paramount dressing room to talk over his coming show. With Benny's secretary Harry Baldwin furiously taking notes, the show is roughed out on Monday, worked...
...Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza. A onetime New York State Senator (at 22, the youngest in the Legislature's history), an oldtime crony of James J. Walker, unsuccessful candidate (although Father Coughlin backed him) for U. S. Representative in 1936, Hastings reportedly sought concessions for West Coast fishing, railroads, a trans-Isthmus pipeline. Mexican politicos thought him a U. S. Senator...
...Although the dance is primarily for Freshmen, anybody else who wants to come is welcome. This is one of the three big dances held every year at the Center...
...Although the previously unbeaten Freshmen captured an easy 2 to 1 lead, by the end of the second period their opponents equalized the count with a tally early in the third period, and another goal two minutes later enabled St. Paul's to take out a victory...