Word: previewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first contact on the enemy's ground provided a preview of the conquered's behavior under occupation. Two Lightning pilots from Okinawa set down unexpectedly on a Kyushu airfield to wait for a rescue plane carrying gas. Jap personnel at the field were courteous and co operative - and they treated the Americans as equals...
...tight, smoke-filled cavern of Manhattan's Café Society Downtown, hot-jazz addicts often have a cozy feeling that they are spectators at a big-league preview. In his Greenwich Village boogie basement, Proprietor Barney Josephson has introduced (or given a Manhattan-sized helping hand to) such competent performers as the Golden Gate Quartet, Josh ("One Meat Ball") White, Baritone Kenneth Spencer, Georgia ("Her Nibs") Gibbs, Hazel Scott.* Last week it looked as if Barney Josephson had found another...
...basis of occasional data ... on many subjects . . . and through an analysis of multiple readings on two ... it appears that attending motion picture shows . . . is by no means relaxation in the physiological sense. . . . It remains to be seen whether the collective change in the body temperature of a preview audience can be used to predict the box-office success of a film...
...multiple system of control. It falls short of the demands of the consumer. It marks out a rough limit of tolerance, and it reveals, at least for the time, the temper of the personnel charged with administration. This raises an issue, opens or reopens a file, leads to a preview of complaints, revives a controversy of the past, invites an independent investigation...
Members of both Glee Club "Iolanthe" casts will combine to produce a radio preview of the forthcoming production over the Crimson Network tomorrow evening at 9 o'clock...