Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better use of the principle's incontrovertible corollary−viz., the quality of a TV show varies inversely with the number of Hollywood stars on it and the time they stay around. Sullivan's solution of the problem (how to get his viewers tuned in with the magic of a lot of big names and not let the big names hang around to drive the viewers away) had an iridescent beauty of its own. He lined the names up and let them give him a 43-gun salute to celebrate his show's eighth anniversary...
...magazine journalism. Changed to American in 1906, it spent a muckraking youth publishing Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, made its biggest impact under Editor John Siddall, who pushed circulation from less than 500,000 to over 2,000,000 between 1915 and 1923 with the inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged in contributors from Skeptic H. L. Mencken to Booster Bruce Barton. When Editor Sumner Blossom took over in 1929, he announced, "Horatio Alger doesn...
...magic telephone number for all this is KIrkland 7-7600, Ext. 2147. The office is open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., with messenger service going...
...Magic Lamp. The dam, a dramatic project that will irrigate 2,000,000 acres of desert, is estimated to cost $1.3 billion over a period of ten years. The U.S. has offered to grant $56 million outright and Britain another $14 million, for a start. Further grants have been promised, but cannot be guaranteed because the U.S. cannot commit Congress more than a year in advance. A major chunk is to come in the form of $200 million loans from the World Bank. Though most of the details of financing were settled months ago, there have been mysterious delays, which...
...leaked reports hinted at a Shepilov offer to supply the whole amount, on terms variously reported as 3%, 2%, or no interest at all. "He gave us a magic lamp, and invited Nasser to rub it and make a wish," said one awed Nasser aide...