Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's biggest steelmakers decided to jack up some of their prices again. Cried the Wall Street Journal: "It would appear that the steel managers had concluded that the country was still riding the inflation wave and that they had better ride with it while it lasts...
Doyle, 32 years younger than Cruikshank, reached his peak of delicacy and wit at 15, with the drawings for Dick Doyle's Journal and his letters to his father. When he was 19 "Dickie" went to work for the new, liberal magazine Punch, spiking the text with whimsical capital initials and borders of capering gnomes interspersed with knights in grinning visors. His Punch cover has survived to the present day, but Dickie himself, furious at Punch's antipapal policy, resigned in 1850 and turned to book illustrations which seldom matched his Punching...
...prefer magic to medicine; hence the popular excitement about the "wonder drugs." Even some doctors have become a little overenthusiastic. Dr. John H. Talbott, of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and the Buffalo General Hospital, sounded this warning in the current issue of the New York State Journal of Medicine: "It is only human to minimize the untoward reactions of a new therapeutic substance in the enthusiasm of discovering and subjecting it to clinical trial." Dr. Talbott listed, in detail, the wonder drugs' dangers...
...voice of Nemo belongs to a studio announcer (Phil Tonken), but the words come from 68-year-old Charles S. Partridge, who is a prophet by avocation. Partridge is a bashful, thermometer-straight, sparse-haired little old gentleman who makes his living as a copyreader for the Wall Street Journal. Ever since he was a boy in Selma, Ala., Partridge has had a countryman's healthy interest in the weather. About 25 years ago he decided to get a scientific background. For five years he visited the Weather Bureau every day, and read hundreds of meteorology books...
...Deceptive Ear. In the current Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Dr. James P. Egan of the University of Wisconsin describes what happens when different sounds enter left & right ears. He put headsets on eight "naive subjects" (not aware of the purpose of the experiment). Through one earphone came a recorded voice. Through the other came a sound like the hiss of steam. When the hiss was moderately loud, it made the speech sound louder, "as if the talker raises his voice in order to make himself heard above the noise...