Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre Project, it had spent $1,468,365 producing 27 plays, many of them flops. Congressman Taber of New York called "putrid" a bit in Sing For Your Supper where an old man appears and sings, "I don't wanna be intellectual. I wanna be sexual...
Advantages of geodetic construction claimed by Greenwood-Yates are that fuselages, wings, other parts, can be woven by unskilled workmen over molds; that construction is cheaper, faster, every bit as sturdy as any other kind; that a woven airplane is less likely to be bashed up by hits from machine-gun bullets, anti-aircraft shell fragments. Aircraft experts predict the average life of an airplane in war service will be only 30 hours, so Greenwood-Yates backers think that bigger Geodetics with larger engines may have a military future. Meanwhile, with a single-engined plane that sells...
...trumpet should be played. For years, this reviewer has been getting in trouble with certain classical acquaintances because he insisted that the average trumpet man in a symphony orchestra plays without feeling, without life, concentrating on getting a nice, pure classical tone--which doesn't convey the slightest bit of emotion or feeling. Same idea as boiled and ordinary water. One may be a little more impure, but it certainly is more palatable...
...scores in that number three doubles match were 10-8; 9-7, and that just about represents the difference between the two squads. When the Crimson are able to insert a bit more punch in the tail end of their lineup, they ought to win against top-flight competition...
From Dayton to Buffalo to Indianapolis an Army pursuit plane streaked last week, bearing the most precious bit of freight now in custody of the U. S. Army Air Corps. Plucked from the Reserve for active duty, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh dutifully inspected the Air Corps experimental centre at Wright Field, and two fighting-plane factories at Buffalo.* He flew on to analyze the Indianapolis plant of Allison Engineering Co., which thereupon announced that it was tripling its capacity and planning to produce a revolutionary, 2,400-h.p. in-line engine for the Army...