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TIME is noted for the accuracy of its statements and for its progressiveness in keeping abreast of the times, and its failure to include in its lexicon the word ''Radiogram" when referring to communications transmitted by radio is regrettable, even though excusable. We expect TIME to set the pace, not follow...
...very nice too, .... and how do you do Mrs. Astor.... POP....and he said that if we'd take two cases....oh, the Michigans is it? ....football? and all this time me thinking it was hockey....oh, well it all just goes to show one must keep abreast of the times....abreast, a breast of duckling....Mirabeau?....Eugenie?....sou cloche?....thanks I'll take mine with seltzer....sing a song of seltzer, sing a song of hey, waiter, how's for some more glasses?....yes, I know, but they just sort of slipped....some more of that fizzy magoozulum?....well...
Tramp, tramp, clump, clump?pure chance brought a marching column of revolutionary troops abreast of the wedding whoopee. Tousled and valiant, bridegroom and bride were standing off their tipsy tormentors. To one hilarious wedding guest, possessor of a seven-shot pistol, the glorious moment clearly demanded noise. Into the air he blazed what sounded like a fusillade?bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...
Young Mr. Hoover began tinkering with radio sets when he was 14. Never ceasing to be his hobby, radio became his career. He studied it at Stanford University, kept abreast of its progress during his graduate years at Harvard. After making a survey of aviation economics under a fellowship of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund, he perceived and took radio work for his own cross section of the air industry...
Stolen Show. The cruisers, destroyers and big submarines V-1 and V-2 (which had saluted by diving when abreast of the reviewing ship) all sped to the southeastern horizon, the dreadnaughts turning eastward into battle line, to prepare for a mock engagement between the Fleet's light forces and its "backbone." Meantime, having sounded their little salute guns, the Saratoga and Lexington turned westward, into the wind. The Salt Lake City turned with them so that she ran between. On the 2½-acre plateau decks of the two huge mother ships waited 150 airplanes, with all motors...