Word: filler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers' columnists, comic and editorial pages, slanted news, twisted headlines and bent prose. Said CBS's delighted Edward R. Murrow: "I think we'll get a mass audience for this one. But even if we don't, it's definitely not just a summer filler...
...action. He listened intently as the professor capped his pedantic climax with rhetorical summing-up, cleverly designed to wake the sleeping in time to applaud. Three Cheers for the Reading Period, Vag thought, as he led off the clapping, and then pushing past the knees of the notebook-filler beside him, found the aisle at last and then the stairs...
...cast, the former is slight and the latter is slick. Full of such odd characters as a valet recruited from the Salvation Army who refers to himself as "we" and a typical Edward Everett Horton queer played by Edward Everett Horton, the picture supplies at least a token of filler between the main-event Rogers Astaire routines...
...Reading Theatre promises to provide a long-awaited filler for this void, but its success demands more interest from without and more organization from within than was displayed yesterday in the Fogg Large Lecture Room. Friedman's play, victim of last-minute cutting and the resulting confusion of the actors, was hardly seen in a fair light. And the people present watched more with the attitude of a small band of die-hards than that of an audience...
...others, accepting the credits means a further shortening of an education that has come to mean little more than a prescribed number of course credits. Members of the ROTC and NROTC programs are especially affected, since as many as five or six of their courses are little more than filler. Candidates for honors, equally hard hit by the ruling of the Administrative Board that war service credits must be accepted, are returning to college to find that concentration requirements, divisional examinations and honors theses must all be hurdled within the one or two remaining terms allotted them by the University...