Word: padding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer the man pulled out a pad of very official forms . . . [and] stiffly replied: 'You mean you want a permit to look...
...women sleep with a hot-water bottle or heating pad in the winter...
...most musical cities in the U.S., San Francisco, the greatest French conductor alive will pad affably to the podium this week to round out his ninth season. During those nine seasons he had brought his orchestra close to the head of the symphonic class. The San Francisco Symphony, approximately 15% of whose annual budget is paid out of taxes, is one of the half-dozen finest orchestras in the U.S. It is kept so by San Francisco's first musical citizen, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux. To those who watch Pierre Monteux still gay and zealous in the midst...
Sober citizens blinked as if they had been slugged. Incredulously they read the news a second time, then reached dizzily for pencil and scratch pad. This week five veterans' organizations proposed that the prospective 11,000,000-odd veterans of World War II be paid bonuses of up to $4,500 each. Only the American Legion was missing from the list of sponsors: Veterans of Foreign Wars, Army and Navy Union, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Regular Veterans'Association. Bonuses would be figured at the rate of $3 a day for home service (with...
Collision mat: a pad the crew sleeps on after the ship has had an accident...