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Word: good (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Ohio, 85%; voice quality good, delivery fair, mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Presidential Timbre | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Cordell Hull, 84%; voice quality very good, delivery good, mannerisms fair, poise very good. Chief appeal: "A quiet gentlemanliness and an ability to address a radio audience in conversational tones which are at once pleasant and compelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Presidential Timbre | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, Michigan, 83% ; voice quality and delivery good, mannerisms poor, poise good. Since 1936 (when his voice was "that of one haranguing a mob") he has "given more attention to his radio appearance, anc today he speaks with vigor and force, but without that displeasing quality he once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Presidential Timbre | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...logic," Radio Guide rated Franklin Roosevelt and Robert Taft "excellent,'' the rest "good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Presidential Timbre | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...soon closed tightly around the screw, and the patient was able to chew comfortably with the protruding head. After several months, Dr. Strock cemented a handsome false tooth shell, known as a porcelain jacket crown, on to the head of the screw, and the tooth looked and felt as good as a real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peg Teeth | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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