Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fan You nogoodnicks rawng 'bout Half-Cent-chery...
Though Hopkins scientists are not always polished performers (Poole once had to give a physicist a sharp kick in the shins to keep him within his time limit), Review no longer has much trouble persuading them to appear. By last week, they were receiving fan letters at the rate of 875 a week, fewer than Berle (who doesn't bother to count them anymore), but enough to suggest that there is a TV audience for something besides comics...
...Gardiner Symonds, president of Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., proposed to invade New England with a subsidiary, the Northeastern Gas Transmission Co., which would take gas from his 1,600-mile Texas-to-Buffalo line, fan it through New England over a 529-mile system at a total investment of $140 million. Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, which controls about half the manufactured gas supply of New England, at first opposed the natural gas invasion; then it took part in forming Algonquin Gas Transmission Co. to distribute natural gas from Symonds' biggest rival, Texas Eastern Transmission Corp...
There are two types of satirist. One, who may be called the responsible satirist, looks at a particular action or attitude and compares it to a fixed standard of morals or behavior. He bites, he makes fan, with a purpose in mind. Swift, Shaw, all the great satirists have been of this breed...
Actually, President Hall has had a short career. Played by Actor Ronald Colman, he exists for only half an hour a week, Wednesday nights on NBC. But judging by the president's fan mail, U.S. educators like him fine. By the pie-simple process of self-identification, many a paunchy U.S. educator is clearly having a gratifying half hour listening to Ronald Colman suavely solving his problems...