Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alcohol has entirely supplanted the goldfish on the national college palate, according to Mildred McAfee Horton, president of Wellesley College. In addition, she warned 750 women attending a New York luncheon last Saturday, that campus atmosphere cannot improve so long as "parents send girls to college for opportunities to meet Harvard men," and other non-academic pursuits...
...Cancer's estimated annual worldwide toll: 1,000,000. *The paramecium, a slipper-shaped animalcule less than 1/125 of an inch long, comes in eight sexes, multiples by dividing itself in two, lives in lily ponds, goldfish bowls, is sometimes found in drinking water...
This was Central High in the days of the Charleston and Button Up Your Overcoat, the days of goldfish swallowing, cloche hats, Herbert Hoover's first presidential campaign, rolled stockings...
Winning house in the draw was Lowell, giving the Bellboys first choice of the five sections on the west side of the playing field. Next out of the goldfish bowl was Kirkland, followed by Leverett and Dunster. Fifth spot went to Winthrop, sixth to Adams, and seventh to commuting students. Eliot drew eighth place and the least favored seats...
...More than anything else, "Dear Mrs. Mayfield" has helped step up the New's circulation from a doddering 40,000 to more than 86,000, challenging enough to keep the Denver Post (circ. 192,991) on its toes. Besides dispensing free advice, Molly collects snapping turtles, pianos and goldfish from people who don't want them for those who do. During the war she gathered diaper pins for G.I. wives, once collected 500 glass eyes for soldiers. Her column appears on the woman's page, but Molly cannily lures male readers with subheads like "She Doesn...