Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio listeners. The gist of his news: Television sets are wooing away from radio a rapidly increasing part of its audience and establishing "a new trend in listening habits. The final effect will be a reduction in radio billings." The cash thus freed, thought Austrian, would soon begin to flow into television, for which he saw a bright future. By the end of next year, he predicted, television would command an audience of 4,500,000 with 750,000 television sets...
...South America, Central America and the West Indies, averaging at least a speech a day, shaking hands, warming up everyone with his ingratiating smile, sometimes impulsively handing out advice which South Americans did not ask for. Some South Americans were a little nonplussed, but trade has started to flow Louisiana...
...Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, chief of the Indian delegation, began with some sarcastic comments on "the free flow of information" with which U.S. delegates say they would like to wash the world. It would just mean, said he, a flood of U.S. crossword puzzles, detective stories and comic books. India could get along nicely without such American cheap-jackery, thank...
Knisely began by examining blood circulation in healthy animals. In all normal animals (including human beings) the red blood cells float separately in plasma like tiny fish in a rapid stream. They flow along freely and often so swiftly that the individual cells cannot be distinguished under a microscope. A normal red cell keeps to itself...
...plot upon simple mistaken identity; but it is into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree pure entertainment...