Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring, big Holstein-Friesian bulls stomped and snorted while cows lowed mournfully in the stalls. Quito was having a cattle show and Ecuador's best of breed were on display. In the thick of the herd, a curly-haired farmer named Galo Plaza Lasso was qualifying entries, arguing with the judges, describing the show over a microphone. He had organized the exposition, and at the moment it interested him more than the fact that three days earlier he had been on top in Ecuador's presidential election...
...June 18, when the cars go on display in dealers' showrooms, Ford expects to have production up to 3,786 a day. Even at that, said Sales Director J. R. Davis, it will be 1950 and perhaps 1951 before the average customer will be able to get immediate delivery from the average dealer...
TIME, in its impetuous desire to display satirical muscles, neglected to note McCoy's adroit use of symbolism, the uncanny fluency and nearness of his dialogue, and the influence (for good or bad) of Henry Miller upon his writing. I predict that TIME will shortly be forced to eat the cynicism and satire that was so flippantly fired from the side of its mouth...
...performance of Thomas Round as Ralph Rackstraw. In less able hands, this role can become just another callow juvenile, latched onto the plot to take care of the male side of the love interest, and for little other purpose. But Round didn't devote himself to a simple display of his fine voice--he added a mature and well-constructed characterization that made his part more than just that of First Tenor...
Scuttlebutt. In Kansas City, whoever broke the window of the Sound Radio Service store ignored the four genuine radio sets on display, scuttled off with the only dummy...