Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serving this commission or whether it is a purpose in itself? If the second is the case, then as a rule it begins to smack of the 'sacred,' to affect piety, to play the priest and to mumble. Anyone with a keen nose will smell it and find it dreadful! Christianity is not 'sacred'; rather, there breathes in it the fresh air of the Spirit. Otherwise it is not Christianity. For it is an out & out 'worldly' thing, open to all humanity: 'Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to every...
...welter of superlatives, statistics and beauty contests (to find the country's most beautiful 15-year-old) Lux Radio Theater this week celebrated its 15th anniversary. The oldest and most popular drama show on the drama-heavy air. Lux Theater is billed as being "synonymous with all the greatness and glamour of Hollywood." Producer-Host William Keighley (rhymes with Seeley) calls it "good, solid, clean entertainment" in which "nothing is ever used that might offend...
Sarnoff still had to find the exact spot on a human neck where the current would hit the "motor point" of the phrenic nerve. For this, his Swiss-born wife Charlotte (who is also his laboratory assistant) served as a human guinea pig. When they found the spot, after hours of probing her neck with the electrode, her diaphragm contracted forcefully and she took a gusset-popping deep breath. Dr. Sarnoff had proved his device. Last year, he and his team of coworkers* called in a manufacturer to make technical improvements in the machine and turn out a pilot model...
...Antonio, went back to old-fashioned selling methods. Sales Promotion Vice President Jim Keenan plugged Frigidaires in splashy newspaper ads, cut out down payments and sent his 80 salesmen out to ring doorbells. Some used the old trick of following an ice wagon down the street to find householders still using iceboxes. One man stayed out so many nights selling that he finally decided to take his wife along: she talked to housewives while he cornered the husbands...
...world was a paranoid Luna Park lit by alcohol and filled with ingenious contraptions for the exercise of harmless aggression and idiosyncratic suspicion. To find out if his servants were stealing canned goods, he set up an elaborate Dictaphone apparatus. To scare off kidnapers, he would prowl his grounds at 2 a.m., armed with blackjacks and carrying on loud conversations with fictitious bodyguards. He never made his peace with the world because he saw no good reason to be at peace with...