Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of TIME our Science Editor wrote a two-column story about a new ultrasonic gadget which could generate "silent" sounds powerful enough to set paper afire, audible sounds loud enough to paralyze strong men. It set up a chain reaction among our readers that is still snapping and crackling around these offices...
...should permit vigilantes [i.e., the Congress] to trample down their liberties and the American way of life. . . . It is going to require a lot of courage and a lot of action to forestall the enslavement of the N.A.M.-Taft-Hartley bill. Those whose wishbone is where their spinal column ought to be will fall by the wayside...
...terrible and despairing, to be played during the procession; then to present a sort of funeral discourse or farewell addressed to the illustrious dead . . . and finally to intone a hymn of glory as an apotheosis, to be played while the eyes of all should be fixed on the tall column [in the Place de la Bastille], crowned by the figure of Liberty...
...Buicks around to the door for the 29-mile drive into town (via an arterial gallingly named Roosevelt Road). After one recent commuting trip on which he noted that the crows seemed to be getting out of hand, he was moved to take over the Tribune farm column for a short essay on weapons: "The firearms manufacturers," he wrote, "have been dead from the neck up for about 40 years. . . . The crow easily gets away from anything the old-fashioned shotgun can throw at him. There is needed a crow gun to decimate this pest...
...runt from The Bronx has indeed put on weight-and he intends to keep throwing it around. "I like my politics," says middle-of-Broadway Billy, "and now & then I'm going to make them known in the column. I think I'll be able to have some influence on the 1948 election. Oh, I'm going to be quite a fellow in these next few years." If Billy keeps running, the rest of the population may eventually need an equalizer...