Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio took the injunction without loud protest, proceeded to gather its own news as it saw fit. NBC and Columbia publicity staffs both are manned by seasoned newshawks. NBC's smart Vice President Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...
...darkly complex, so fabulously remote from the familiar things of human existence is science's probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe-of light, electricity, gravity, matter-that the language of physicists is becoming metaphysical. Efforts to fit new discoveries to demonstrable theory, or to perform the converse, simply pile paradox on paradox. While U. S. probers have been mostly content to spin new riddles by unearthing new facts in their laboratories, European physicists have tried more & more of late, by sheer sweat of mind, to coordinate, to reconcile, to reduce the areas of conflict among observed phenomena...
...words, like muchness." Thus did Vanity Fair in its current number dedicate "Vanity Fair's Own Paper Dolls," a new one-page feature. In the centre of the page was a drawing of Mr. Morgan in underclothes (see cut). In the four corners were costume patterns to fit Mr. Morgan's moods. One was a tattered brown suit, patched with green and purple, which hung loosely on a headless figure holding in his hands the cup and pencils of a street beggar. A miniature girlish figure clung to the belt. The title was: "Investigation Suit, with Midget Attached...
...dabbler, Iturbi plunged into a program fit to give his hearers an honest test of his ability. He announced that he would begin with two Wagner numbers, Overture to Tannhduser and Prelude to Act i of Lohengrin, then simultaneously play the piano solo and conduct Beethoven's Third Concerto in C Minor, before winding up with the Eroica...
...Treasury. If the announcement had been made publicly few could have guessed who was meant. The Press had never told the public that Andrew Mellon existed. Never before 1921 had the name of Andrew Mellon appeared in a famed newspaper whose motto is "All the News That's Fit to Print!" (N. Y. Times}. The Author- Harvey O'Connor, 36, born in Minneapolis, son of a railway cook, was raised in the Northwest, spent his early years as a journalist for the radical wing of American labor-editor of the Daily Call, International Weekly, Union Record (labor...