Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exact figures on the increment of the 1941 Yale weekend liquor consumption were available from a thorough tapping of sources and kegs. George H. O'Brien, genial provisioned of the Mount Auburn oasis, is relying on his memory and his well stocked cellar to meet the boom in demand...
Literary critics can help boom a book into the best-seller lists. Drama critics can make or break a Broadway play. But for all the dent they make on moviegoers, film critics might as well stop frittering away their time...
...paralysis agitans involved his whole emaciated body in one miserable stammer. Sometimes he could scarcely project his palsied voice past his lips. Sometimes, uncontrollably, it filled the whole room with its blurting bass boom. What gave him great dignity was the complete purity of his manner in its courtesy, diffidence, simplicity, and the pungency of his expression. Since, to avoid the fatigue of unnecessary speech, he edits his thoughts, his conversation has some of the finish of literature...
...contract based on her studio's calculation that it could star her in four pictures a year; since each picture now takes about twice as much time, that same contract must be supported by two pictures or less. All of this means trouble when the present abnormal movie boom tapers off and admission prices are cut. The box-office take, which soared with rising ticket prices (see chart), can drop just as rapidly...
Cairnie started to live back in 1927, when, after studying Architectural Landscaping at the Harvard Graduate Schol for some years, he and a companion merged their private libraries and hung out a shingle. At first, profits barely reached the ham of a mythical piggy-bank. Then came the boom. Judge Woolsey, a man of taste, made his famous decision permitting James Joyce's "Ulysses" into the country, and the book-stalls began buzzing. Cambridge shops were hesitant about handling the controversial volume, and while they discussed the matter with the local Legion of Decency, Cairnie loaded his shelves with...