Word: hastened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Electric and Westinghouse. who are working hard to hasten the commercialization of television, have a great fear−that the public may gull itself about this new entertainment. Last week Westinghouse's Vice President H. P. Davis warned: "Television, in so far as present accomplishments warrant, has been 'overplayed.' . . . Unfortunately, this has created the opportunity to foist on the public, much as in the early days of radio, a widespread sale of unsuitable apparatus, which those who purchase naturally expect will permit them to view television broadcasts, but which will only lead to disappointment and dissatisfaction...
Thus far it was an issue within a party, and Nominee Smith did not hasten to force it further. He postponed his answer to Mr. Daniels until next month...
That is how Maxwell House coffee became the biggest advertised brand of coffee and the biggest seller. It is beginning to sell in foreign markets. Postum's sales agencies abroad will hasten Maxwell House's further expansion...
...press calls me 'Potentate' and 'Mystery Man' . . . titles to which, I hasten to tell you, I have no right...
...with no small degree of anticipation that the Vagabond will hasten to Sever 11 this afternoon at 2 o'clock, for there he expects to see and hear a demonstration of unusual interest...