Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean David's main concern these days is raising the full $20,000,000 for "stabilizing and consolidating." The full $20,000,000 would endow another classroom building, a social and eating center, and provide an annual income for research and instruction...
Although a lack of material was the main reason for last night's announcement, there have been other setbacks to cause the present doubt in the minds of the editors. Disagreement among the three board members about an article on Indonesia which one editor thought was particularly interesting was cited by Shafer in his explanation...
...when Eddie Condon's saloon on Third Street rattled nightly with inspired polyphony from George Brunis' trombone and Bill Davison's trumpet. Condon's rickety palace is no longer subject to such damage, with Bruins in Chicago; but the proprietor, operating as always with an eye for the main chance, has recouped his loss by promoting a remarkable young pianist...
Dream Tube. Other color systems besides those of the main contestants have been proposed to FCC. The "line sequential" system of Color Television Inc. uses a single picture tube with three blocks of different colored phosphors on its face. The colored pictures are combined by projection lenses on a common screen. But C.T.I. has not shown its color pictures officially, and no one is sure how good they are or will...
...railroads, which are still making money on freight, know how to make money on passengers too, and have proved it on their main-line trains. They know that it is the uneconomical branch lines which eat up the profits. Yet state regulatory bodies, often for sentimental reasons, balk at letting them be closed down. (When the Chesapeake & Ohio sought to eliminate one, oldtimers who had not ridden it since World War I protested that they would miss the whistle...