Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
...Gods! what a glorious morning it was! Just enough of enervating, voluptuous heat-and just enough breeze to fill the wings of the zephyrs-and just enough sunshine to reflect a sparkle in the eyes of beautiful women-and just enough people . . . on the pave to make one continued, ceaseless, devilish, provoking, delicious, glorious jam!" Thus ecstatically did young (22) Editor Walt Whitman of Manhattan's daily Aurora (circ. 5,000) sing the praises of New York in the spring of 1842. It was a notable newspaper era. Besides Whitman's Aurora, New York City boasted 15 other...
Kiski had indeed been good to many a U.S. college: it had produced more all-America football players (67)* than any other prep school. But to Headmaster Clark, that sort of reputation was suddenly disturbing. "Why," he kept asking himself, "can't we make our boys as interested in studying as they are in football...
...National Association of Retail Druggists was appealing to the public not to tempt the druggist. It distributed posters for display behind the counter: "Please do not ask us to violate federal and state laws which make it unlawful for us to sell you certain restricted drugs...
...famous Smyth Report (Atomic Energy for Military Purposes) appears this ominous sentence: "The fission products produced in one day's run of a 100,000-kilowatt chain-reacting pile might be sufficient to make a large area uninhabitable." The Smyth Report appeared in 1945. Since then, "radiological poisons" have hardly been mentioned, much less evaluated publicly as a military weapon...