Word: currently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrank from the managerial decisions imposed by the system. Composer Kurt Weill joined, but that still left the company with only three dramatists- and a lagging output. This season, however, the Playwrights have a real prospect of getting new blood: Garson Kanin (whose new play is on their current schedule), Ruth Gordon and Thornton Wilder...
...every eight, an outlay of at least $5 a day per patient for food, care and treatment. Says Deutsch: "Not a single state mental hospital in the U.S. meets, or has ever met, even the minimum standards set by A.P.A. in all major aspects of care and treatment." The current average in state mental hospitals, he says, is $1.25 a day per patient...
...news more aid & comfort than perhaps it realized: "What he is saying, of course, is that news is what you make it, and that at least some American editors are feeding too much spark into the mixture . . . His point is good, even though he happens to be criticizing the current state of the world more than the newspapers...
...developing language of television. Like other barbaric dialects, Mencken found, it includes many borrowings from earlier cultures (theater, movies, radio); and TV's own coinages, as reported by Variety and assorted philologers, seemed to consist largely of the obvious, like ike for iconoscope. Other samples of current video verbiage given by Mencken...
...hour of the day or night, including Sunday, merely by calling Marquette 8-5020. Telephone clerks take the order and send it out next morning. By such round-the-clock selling, the Boston Store has become Wisconsin's biggest retail establishment under one roof, with a current annual sales volume of $40 million...