Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, tourist travel to Prague picked up magically overnight. Tourists wolfed tasty Prager ham and downed it with Pilsner beer, convinced that they were safe so long as The Man With the Wrinkled Brow continues his studies...
...morning last week, the Institute sprang Lesson No. 1 on 60 students, mostly admen of the questing, high-pressure type with whom Dale Carnegie's courses were popular. Dr. Reilly called the First Annual Straight Thinking Breakfast a "mental showerbath." As the pupils nodded over grapefruit, cereal, ham & eggs, coffee (price: $10), he revealed his formula: "1) Separate facts from opinions and look at the facts from the standpoint of who, what, when and where. 2) Arrive at an intelligent definition of the real problem and do not jump from an opinion to a conclusion without reasoning. 3) Consider...
When Cartoonist Ham Fisher decided that Joe had got over his grief and should return to the U. S. to defend the heavy weight title, he found no way to get Joe out of his five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot...
Reds & Nazis and any other "unAmerican activities" he may find in the land will be the quarry of loud, towering, ham-handed Representative Martin Dies (rhymes with "pies"') of Texas. With him will work six House colleagues on an appropriation of $25,000. To get his inquiry voted, Martin Dies (whose hatred of communists is his political stock-in-trade in Texas) enlisted the support of Representative Samuel Dickstein (whose hatred of Nazis is his political stock-in-trade on Manhattan's lower East Side). Publicity-wise Mr. Dickstein, anxious to revive the Nazi-hunting committee he headed...
...last week was selected for the 1937 William Samuel Paley Amateur Radio Award, a sculptural abstraction of aluminum rods and spheres. The Paley Award was founded in"recognition of relief work done by radio amateurs in the 1936 flood disasters. Last year it went to Coudersport, Pa.'s Ham Walter Stiles Jr. He. in March 1936, moved a half ton of radio gear to flood-stricken Renovo, Pa., restored communication contact with the outside world to bring food, clothing and medicine to 4,000 people...