Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...prospect of a blacked-out Christmas. They planned to trim the bare steel girders of the big underground shelters and to set up Christmas trees, to have carols and mince pie. But the youngest moppets were afraid that London's anti-aircraft crews might shoot at Santa Claus...
Last week roly-poly (200 lb., 5 ft. 8 in.) Harry Gokey, 71,. retired vaudeville trouper, made his bid for No. 1 U. S. professional Santa by booking a round of Clausing (at $5 to $25 an appearance) in Portland, Ore. private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive season in the business. Since his first appearance in a window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas...
Last fortnight, in the Rockefeller Journal of Experimental Medicine, Drs. Claus W. Jungeblut and Murray Sanders of Columbia University announced the next step: successful immunization of monkeys against polio. First they took a strain of live polio virus deadly to monkeys and injected it into a cotton rat. He frisked around apparently in perfect health. Then they passed a portion of his polio-saturated brain on to Rat No. II. He became mildly sick. A suspension of his brain, in turn, was given to Rat No. III. He became paralyzed, and his brain, when given to mice, killed them...
...judges of the competition were Robert T. Morris of the Fogg Museum, M. J. McCann of Raiph Harris Company, and George Warner of Claus Gelotte...
...drama, Pilgrims of Light. Longer than an O'Neill tragedy, it took two nights to perform in the flower-banked, frame mission hall, told the story of brothers who traveled round the world in their search for Truth. For Megiddo children, who do not believe in Santa Claus, there were quantities of useful gifts...