Word: hit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other line of Williams research also deals with insects, and the unexplained mystery of how they fly. Men can contract their muscles only 10 times a second, but some insect wings hit frequencies of 1000. Biologists have never understood how they do it and in his attempts to find out Williams has built such weird instruments as a machine that measures the horsepower output of a fruitfly...
When the Los Angeles Times launched its new afternoon tabloid, the Mirror, last October, it hit the newsstands with a dull thud. Readers were baffled by its sideways front page, annoyed by its murky newsprint and cloudy color pages, and bored by its stories. By Thanksgiving Day, circulation had slumped to 71,447-well below the 100,000 guarantee to advertisers. From his thriving morning Times, Owner Norman Chandler rushed over City Editor Hugh ("Bud") Lewis to give Mirror Publisher Virgil Pinkley some help...
...routes into Canada. Some U.S. airmen were outraged. They complained that their lines had not been permitted to participate in the negotiations, although T.C.A. had. Colonial Airlines' fiery President Sigmund Janas, who has spent 19 years building up traffic on the New York-Montreal route, was the hardest hit. He charged that the agreement had been made at "unprecedented secret and concealed negotiations." Said he: "Nothing more shocking ever has occurred in international aviation diplomacy . . . valuable rights [have been] sold down the river...
Only a scattering of countries, mostly small, showed a drop in the number of cinemansions since 1947. Conspicuous among these was the U.S. Although their combined seating capacity had grown some to hit 11,796,072, there were now 18,351 U.S. theaters, 414 fewer than were grinding away two years...
Edward, My Son (M-G-M), starring Spencer Tracy, is an ambitious Hollywood effort to cash in on a British play which became a Broadway stage hit. Though it lacks the play's richest ingredient-the polished performance of British Actor and co-Playwright Robert Morley-it still makes a succulent emotional pudding...