Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still subject to double vision. Now both NBC and ABC are trying to add double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk's Wednesday show (ABC) was broadcast nationwide in stereo, i.e., two different mikes feeding the schmalz into two transmitters. Fans yearning to catch the slightest nuance in each oom-pah-pah could turn on their AM radio as well as the TV set and, by placing them seven to ten feet apart, achieve an approximation of stereo sound. The experiment worked so well that ABC equipped 75 stations with the TV-radio...
Cocker and Springer Spaniels make excellent dogs for pheasant. Rather than point game, most spaniels flush it, often leaping spectacularly into the air in an effort to catch birds on the wing. Waterfowl hunters occasionally use water spaniels, but generally take their choice of the three retrieving specialists: the Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever or Chesapeake Bay Retriever...
thief crook cynic (swimfloatdrifting fragment of heaven) trickstervillain raucous rogue & vivid voltaire you beautiful anarchist (i salute thee dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backwar
...catch and hold his audience with each role in turn. But he can leave it only the memory of a man in a dinner-jacket on a bare stage...
...lion of American letters, sat in a library reference room reading St. Thomas Aquinas. Next to Dreiser sat Miss Fannie Hurst, author. They started to talk, and so fascinated was Dreiser by her remarks on Aquinas that he insisted on continuing the conversation even though she had to catch a plane to St. Louis. Dreiser, as Author Hurst now tells it, flew right along with her, but not before asking her husband if he had any objections. He did not. which leads Author Hurst to remark: "This throws a revealing light on my wonderful kind of marriage...