Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity got its first look at Amherst plays yesterday afternoon and devoted a large portion of time to forward passing. Dick Harlow is not overlooking any bets to protect his team against an unset in the first game, and he wants to have McNicol fully prepared to launch an aerial offensive against the Little Three standard bearers...
...Hurricanes seem to be pursuing and intercepting successfully the very aerial foe we are preparing to ward off, and yet for that same function the U. S. must pay more than three times as much, plane for plane. Is it inefficiency, the standard of living, or gravy...
This week ten famed newscasters from the three major networks will foregather in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria to join in an aerial storytelling bee. Wired for sound by NBC, the tale-spinners' seminar will include such lights as Raymond Gram Swing, Elmer Davis, H. V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell. Purpose of the broad cast: to pay tribute to Lowell Thomas on his tenth anniversary in radio...
Thomas has never strayed from the aerial middle-of-the-road, has aroused few good-sized controversies in his radio career. He got into one aerial row in 1931, when, following a rule of The Literary Digest, then his sponsor, that no material already aired be included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman...
...Again, variety shows were the audiences' favorite class. Second place went to classical music, third to aerial dramas. Close behind were serials, which make up 84.9% of daytime programs. Also in the van on the C. A. B. books were the audience-participation shows, with Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge and Pot o' Gold listed among the first...