Word: prospected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...networks generally restrict these serials to daytime hours, reserving the night air for classier stuff. Recently B-S-H tried to place transcriptions of some of its cheaper CBS and NBC serials, like Stella Dallas, Backstage Wife, etc. on small stations for night-time broadcasting. One prospect was Elliott Roosevelt's 24-station Texas State Network. But when Elliott and Blackett tried to get permission to take transcriptions of the shows off NBC and CBS wires, they got a royal runaround...
...vaguely and you can never make out what they are saying, but this particular news placard of the Evening Standard just said "Peace Threat." In fact, having already between us killed about 100,000 people, the highly civilized countries of Europe are suddenly threatened with Peace. That such a prospect should be described as a disaster is some small indication of the state of mind to which we are all degenerating...
...sold quickly when salesgirls claimed that one pair of them would outwear four of silk, that they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect may be another story. For silk's best defense against nylon & company is that decent silk stockings can be sold for 79? when the price of raw silk is below $2 (1935-38 average, $1.85). With silk at $3.50 most branded stockings were up from 79? last spring...
...threat to Dartmouth, and he should be more at home at wingback. Cliff Helman, up from the Jayvees, is in line for a Red shirt soon, because right now he stacks up as the best passer on the squad. The 180 pound Junior may develop into a good backfield prospect if he can improve in the other departments of his play. Another aerial possibility. Bob James, is a bit too slow for the tailback role...
...took him to Iceland in 1936 (Letters From Iceland), then to Spain during the Civil War, then to China (Journey to a War), last week had taken an apartment in Brooklyn and intended to stay. Bony-faced, eager, un-slicked, Auden told a reporter that he saw one hopeful prospect from the "muddle" in Europe; a general realization that violent revolution is as impotent as violent war. Said he: "In America nationalism doesn't mean anything; there are only human beings. That's how the future must...