Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...services from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and the colonies. To a Mrs. Norman Cardwell, 45-year-old farmer's wife, he gave the Order of the British Empire for her singlehanded capture of a shot-down Nazi air pilot. Britons devoured her story in the newspapers. Excerpt...
...over a private NBC radio channel, the President himself was making his Defense Speech to Congress (see p. 18). For five minutes, those of Manhattan's radio audience who were tuned in to WHN heard, not the start of the President's speech, but an excerpt from an old recording. Reason: WHN engineers, fiddling around for the President's broadcast, tuned in on the private channel, recognized the familiar voice, did not discover their mistake until five minutes later when the same voice boomed: "Tomorrow is Labor...
...week, before the American News paper Publishers Association at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Bill Knudsen blew off a cloud of steam over the strained relations of big business and Government in the U. S., let go the biggest puff on the subject of big pay for industrialists. Excerpt...
...ancient tradition, the Prizes were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the Boylston Professorship. At first most of the speeches given were either in Latin or Greek, but today only one selection, an excerpt from Plate, will be delivered in a Classic language...
...pilot imprisoned in Germany wrote home about how, diving to bomb a submarine, he plunged into the ocean. Excerpt...