Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...props interwoven with flexible laths of steel and paper, on which is sprayed gunite (cement shot from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a shaft 8 in. thick at the floor. By ordinary reckoning, these slenderizing pencils would take about two tons weight each where they were called...
Like U. S. Congressmen, U. S. educators keep an alert ear cocked at their constituents. They seldom hear much. Aside from a noisy minority of taxpayers, patriots and zealous parents, most citizens take their schools for granted, do little kibitzing. But last week, in a Gallup poll arranged by the American Council on Education and its subsidiary, the American Youth Commission, the U. S. people told what they thought about their schools. Some findings...
...Howard Colwell Hopson could still grin from ear to ear as he boldly taunted a lumbering SEC. Last week the smile and boldness were gone. Ingenious, porcine Howard Hopson, charged with milking his now bankrupt $1,000,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric system of $20,000,000 in the biggest utility peculation of all time, went on trial for mail fraud and conspiracy...
Hague (as Tobey's son, Charles Jr., leans over to whisper in his father's ear): "Tee hee! Look at Willie whistling into his ear...
...full year's supply of films (100 to 300 per theatre), sight unseen. They do not sell the films by name, since none has been completed and only a few planned. Instead they sell their studio's reputation. From the poke sticks a real pig's ear or two, a few guaranteed bristles: "three Gables, four Rooneys, two Mervyn LeRoy specials," etc. To get these, an exhibitor must buy a full schedule of unknowns, many of which will prove to be not pigs but turkeys. This is the system known as block booking and blind selling...