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Word: attempter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hooper makes no attempt to judge a program's merit. The only thing radio men are panting to know is: "How many people listened?" The service makes no claim even to an answer on that. Each Hooper point does not necessarily equal a million listeners (e.g., 31,100,000 for Hope). Hooper says that that rule-of-thumb may be true, but as far as he is concerned, it is just a huckster's sales pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: How Many Listeners? | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Riding in on Cornell's sweep-wash last Saturday doesn't exactly humble Tom Bolles' previously unbeaten Varsity crew. By finishing second on Lake Cayuga--instead of winning their third straight regatta, they merely complicated any attempt to pick the best of the Eastern crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

...life--these accounts became so telling in their moving directness that Wolfe decided to obtain the publication of these stories. Deciding at the outset that all profits would go to the disabled authors, he felt more and more impelled at each defeat to continue in his attempt. The daily despairs of the novice in the field were lessened by the agreement of a small publishing house in Pennsylvania to produce 2000 copies at Wolfe's own expense. More weeks passed after this, with no appreciable notice. Finally, a copy came into the hands of one of the directors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

Toppled from the Olympian heights of Ivy League leadership after a five-week run in that position, the Varsity baseball team will attempt to recoup some portion of its prestige in a double-header with Dartmouth at Soldiers Field today...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Last-Place Dartmouth Nine Here Today for Double Bill | 5/14/1947 | See Source »

...lines; as she developed the part of Juno she caught some of the almost cruel indomitability with which she holds her rotting family together. She never approached, though, the real intensity which the role offers, her famous closing speech in particular falling below standard in what was evidently an attempt to avoid repetition of style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

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