Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sixth, as State after State began rolling over to him, photographers got their cameras ready, flash bulbs set. Illinois shifted heavily, Michigan came, Missouri, Oklahoma, Virginia - it was all over. He had been nominated for President of the U. S. Mr. Willkie, formerly of Elwood, Ind. rose; someone pushed him toward a microphone in an adjoining room, and he said in a subdued voice: "I'm overwhelmed. I'm deeply grateful. . . . Now I want to go and join my family...
...Last week Son Henry Hilgard Villard, at his marriage in Manhattan to Mary Caroline St. John, fainted as he rose from the altar after the ceremony, was carried out by his brother, Oswald...
When World War II began, many Americans were 1917-wise, outsmarted themselves by buying up staple groceries in which they expected a famine. A squirrel's panic (TIME, Sept. 23) forced price rises and even trade shortages in flour, canned goods, lard, and especially sugar, which rose from 4.40? to 5.75? a pound in one week. But by last week few housewives were laying by sugar any more. And speculators wondered whether sugar is still a good short sale. The beet price had fallen to a new all-time low, just .04? below the 3.426? a pound bottom...
...collects fresh mowings, washes them tenderly, sets them out in the sun to dry, then nibbles them with fruit and cheese, or tosses them up with dressing in a variety of tasty salads. Sample: grass mowings with "broken Dad's Cookie Biscuits and currants"; with equal quantities of rose petals; with uncooked oats. In the fall, he dries and stores his grass as hay. He never cheats by cooking...
...Class Day, Harvard's 5,000 alumni and undergraduates trooped merrily out to the Stadium for traditional fun-making. Placarded, costumed and loaded with ammunition for the traditional confetti battle, they laughed at a light-hearted speech by Ivy Orator Bayard S. Clark. Then up rose Davis R. Sigourney, '15, Ivy Orator 25 years ago and a captain in World War I, to make the traditional alumni welcoming speech to graduates. Mr. Sigourney looked grim. His words were grimmer...