Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever a magazine was not born with a silver spoon in its mouth, that magazine is TIME. In the whole U.S. in 1923 we could not find enough faith in the newsmagazine idea to scrape together even $100,000 working capital. The editor remembers the first office as "chaos-but not even very much of that." The editorial budget for the whole first year was only about half what our editors spend every week now. And even when TIME was three years old its continued existence was still so touch-and-go that one week late...
...lots of more than 5,000. To Chicagoans, auctioneering Samuel L. Winternitz & Co.'s 995-page inventory brought nostalgic reminders of the hotel's heyday in the '20s. To the buyers who flocked into auction headquarters in the 21-story Electric Garage, the lots were mouth-watering reminders of the days before rationing and stop-production orders. Items...
Sound War. When the blitz began, sound recording became an effective claymore against rumor. Censorship hid the facts of Liverpool's first severe bombing, and word of mouth had the city anything from pock-marked to a smoking ruin. BBC wheeled a sound truck into Liverpool, got inhabitants to talk into the microphone, recorded the sounds of traffic, of reconstruction, of life going on. The broadcast recording made it clear that Liverpool was unbroken and unafraid...
...five feet deep. The object is to spring the forty yards between obstacles, jump six feet, grab the rope and swing across the chasm to the other side. Another spring of forty feet, another hurdle and then the dessert, (boy, what a meal.) Everyone likes a large, sweet, mouth-watering dessert. The Obstacle Course provides exactly that. A ladder extends in the air for thirty feet. You go up one side and down the other. If you can survive this course, you are a cinch to be good for that last mile you have to run to catch a fleeing...
...visit to the Mayo Clinic: "So far as I could see, I was the only person in that town who wasn't either on wheels or walking around with a string hanging out of his mouth...