Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear about the international exchange of cultural films. In the panel on Social Tensions, Dr. Quincy Wright, professor of international law at' the University of Chicago, was offering (for those who could follow it) a new definition of war. Said Dr. Wright: "War is a condition where tensions pass the threshold of a certain intensity of pressure." Some of these tensions, summed up the panel secretary later, could be measured-"like gastric ulcers, and crime and suicide rates." It was a matter of grave concern, said the secretary, that the world was unable "to measure whether tensions between...
...waterfront didn't know quite what to make of all this heavenly refurbishing. Brother True Knowledge refused to accept pay checks made out to Charley Ross. He signed True Knowledge on his union card, income-tax returns and his waterfront pass, but refused to have his name legally changed, on the ground that he had not existed before his rebirth. But since longshoremen were badly needed during the war years. True Knowledge went on working despite the cries of pay clerks, wharf guards and union officials...
...caliber of the men, it was a disappointing report. But in its peroration, written by Philosopher Hocking, the Commission for once rose to the level of its argument. "The journalist," said he, "sometimes reflects that his art is one of improvisation, and that its products, being destined to pass with the interest of the moment, require no great care in their workmanship. Yet, just because it is the day's report of itself, it is the permanent word of that day to all other days. The press must be free because its freedom is a condition of its veracity...
Enterprise to the Rear. In its decision, FCC stuck close to potent RCA's arguments. FCC was not satisfied that the CBS system was "as good as can be expected ... in the foreseeable future." And, added FCC, it could not give CBS a license and let the public pass on color because ". . . there are not enough frequencies available . . . for more than one color television system...
Radio's big names are more than glad to pass out that kind of money. In recent months, with sponsors axing heaps of weak shows, most of the fixed stars have felt safer with the added twinkle of a satellite. And many a guest has been delighted to twinkle at the price...