Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...note in TIME for Dec. 25 the correspondence concerning the dialect terms juke-box and jook, and the citation by Mr. T. F. Koch of Gainesville, of my paper on jook which I wrote when an undergraduate at the University of Florida. I wish to point out what has been brought to light regarding jook by recent research...
...population of 8000, has sprung up within the last 90 years, though its name has been honored for over three centuries. Bur about ten years ago this rate of growth suddenly began to fall, a fact bound to produce many a knotty problem of policy. President Conant has taken note of the common origin of these problems, and has offered some tentative gropings for a solution...
...granted a $26,500,000 loan to Associated's sub-subsidiary NY PA NJ Utilities Co. (Nypan), unless SEC allowed Associated's No. 1 subsidiary (Associated Gas & Electric Corp.) to pass $557,000 up to the top of the pyramid as dividends or as interest on a note for $71,800,000 Associated was headed for bankruptcy...
...representing only Herbert Fleishhacker, was working not for but against the interest of the bank, Anglo California demanded back $85,000 paid him from bank funds on Fleishhacker's orders. While it was about it, Anglo California tossed in another item of $75,000 still due on a note which Mr. Neylan has refused to pay because he thinks he has that much more fee coming...
...removed from one, beat half an hour. . . . Hummingbirds: there are more than 500 species. They can fly backward. Staple food is not nectar but insects. . . . Fish: bloodthirsty, nightmarishly ferocious, is the footlong, razor-toothed piranha. A school of piranha consumed a whole sheep in 2½ minutes flat. . . . Domestic note: Boa constrictors are used as pets. They are excellent ratters...