Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filter mike confidentially cuts listeners in on the secret. Producer Herb Polesie (rhymes with so-lazy) provides the humor, asking such Oscar Levantine questions as "Can I give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby Van Deventer, who have learned to narrow the field of possibility so quickly that they often guess the answer in six or seven questions...
...married lady of my acquaintance . . . proposed to me that on her return [to New Salem, III. from a visit to Kentucky') she would bring a sister . . . upon condition that I would engage to become her brother-in-law with all convenient dispatch-I . . . accepted. . . , In due time [the lady] returned, sister in company sure enough-This stomached me a little. . . . I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. . . . I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother . . . from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind...
...knowledge. They predicted the motions of the earth, the moon, the planets. They derived a maze of useful mechanical sub-laws. They explained the behavior of gases, and discovered the nature of heat. Newton's laws did not account for everything, but the physicists felt that this was due to their own ignorance. Eventually, they were sure, all phenomena could be explained in Newton's terms...
...Palestine. But the U.P. later admitted that the Mufti's whereabouts were uncertain, and the Syrian Government denied that he had entered by air or through any frontier post. The Arab world looked like a crafty hen sitting on an egg-an egg which they would disclose in due time...
...industry, free of major strikes last week, was not free of major troubles. Biggest was the shortage in steel. It had become so scarce, due to the production losses of the coal and steel strikes, that CPA Boss John Small slapped on priorities to funnel some 20% of all finished steel into essential industries-housing, farm machinery and railroad equipment, etc. How long the priorities system would last (it now applies only to the third quarter) depended on how quickly steel mills hit capacity production...