Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, his students call him a great teacher.* "He has the ability," says one, "to pick a minute point of law and expand it, contract it, show its variations, its logic, its evolution. It's not the material that makes his courses; it's Gilmore." Another chimes in: "He's not flashy. Essentially, you're getting hard thinking. You won't find what he teaches in any books...
...domestic news in order to avoid setting up duplicate bureaus in both countries. But the deal became lopsided as more news originated in the U.S. and less in Britain. Last year the A.P. demanded an extra fee from Reuters to continue the arrangement. Rather than pay, Reuters decided to expand its own small news-gathering operation in the U.S. Similarly, last April A.P. linked up with Dow-Jones to provide an international financial news service, a field in which it had no serious rivals. Reuters replied by challenging Dow-Jones...
...idea of producing a line of construction toys that figured to appeal to girls as well as boys; he devised gaily colored plastic blocks to fit the bill, and production began on them in 1952. Once the blocks caught on, children naturally needed more and more sets to expand their construction possibilities -and the business grew apace. By 1960 (the elder Christiansen died in 1958), the product was doing so well that Lego dropped its production of wooden toys...
First, PBH intends to expand both the number of organizations already involved in the talent search and the neighborhoods where the search is in progress...
...already has more electronic augmentation on hand than most disc jockeys, but he wants to expand his collection. He plans to install a voice organ, with which he could eliminate certain spectra of the sound as well as a variety of custom sound making devices. "Eventually," he says proudly, "I'll have as much control of the show as the engineer does...