Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first week Billy sounded like a not-too-assured mixture of Walter Winchell and the late Alexander Woollcott. He let his listeners in on his random thoughts, a bit of philosophy, some gossip. He did a little crusading for higher salaries for teachers. He told a yarn about World's Fair days, when J. Edgar Hoover put the finger on a gangster who was bothering Billy. He bemoaned all the big-time stars that he has been dope enough to pass...
...since the one-third cash margin rule was put into effect two weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 13). But the price of grain went right on rising. Next day, when rumors spread that CCC was about to step out of the market, the price of wheat fell off a bit, but continued its climb when the rumor proved false. So long as the Government bought, there was no reason for grain prices to go anywhere...
Since the third act at least equalled its predecessors this is a very adequate evaluation of the latest F. Hugh Herbert opus. It is an "I guess I like it" bit of pleasantry that would disintegrate under any more piercing inspection...
Once Jiminy has quit selling, the invisible Miss Shore tells and sings quite a pleasant little yarn about one Bongo (original story by Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis). Bongo is a small circus bear who answers the call of the wild on his unicycle, finds that he is a bit soft and urban for life in the raw, falls for a sexy little taupe she-bear, and engages a gigantic rival in slapstick battle...
Because the natural scientists have always dealt in quantitative terms, they are chafing at the bit to get at the most advanced calculator in existence. "Physicists know what they want to do with it," observes committee-member Samuel A. Stouffer of the department of Sociology, "whereas we will know much better what to do with the opportunity a year from...