Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommendation-that radio stations should fit the grooves in her recordings by using needles set to corresponding angles and sizes to fit her day-by-day wishes in recording procedure-is just so much Miss Porter's School hogwash. The needles in these modern reproducers are set at the factory, and cannot be adjusted. The simplest method, I might add, would be to fit Miss Howard's recording to these needle adjustments, which, I might add also, have probably been made by engineers with perhaps more thoroughgoing engineering degrees than those passed out at Miss Porter...
Opening Parliament last week, Sweden's King Gustav, 88, was guilty of a slip of the tongue which caused the Soviet Minister's heart to miss a beat. Said the King (of Sweden's membership in the United Nations): "We have recently joined the United States. It is the fervent wish of our entire people that this new union will successfully complete its mission to affirm international collaboration and to assure peace...
Hedy Lamarr, who wants to break a picture contract with Producer Arnold Pressburger because she expects a baby in March, lost a court fight to have her case heard before the baby arrives. "Miss Lamarr's condition," gravely deposed the producer, "came about not through any fault of my own, but due entirely to an act on the part of the plaintiff which was solely within the plaintiff's own control...
...feature that is very popular with habitues is the large library of recorded poetry which may be heard over earphones on the two machines provided for that purpose, according to Miss Nora Cordingley, who takes time out from her duties as curator of Widener's Roosevelt Collection to assist John L. Sweeney, curator of the Poetry Room since...
After Dolly's tribulations, the nation's problems rank first, and if James Madison discusses politics, it's only to create an impression that will lead to a clinch. Expressing doubts and fears for the nation's future. Meredith rushes into Miss Rogers' ample embrace, asserting reel after reel that you just can't mix business with pleasure...