Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Producer Sol Lesser confessed to TIME'S Hollywood correspondent: "That's something we overlooked. Do you think we ought to put out a trailer showing a marriage ceremony...
...lordship, Stoke is "an exciting experiment"-the end of his lifelong dream to give a university education to all the John Elkins of Britain. "Some have told me," says he, "that ... I am proposing to put a lever under a rock which has stood in one place for a great many years. Well, then, at my age, I cannot afford to wait too long...
...real job, said Luckman, "is not to sell the enterprise system, but to put some enterprise into the selling system . . . [Businessmen] must relearn the science of fighting for orders ... At the very least, we should inflict as much wear & tear on the soles of our shoes as we do on the seats of our pants." To help sales, Luckman thought that business should cut prices where possible, take inventory losses where necessary. Costs would have to be shaved, of course, and the way to do that, he said, was to boost output. There must be "a willingness to expand...
...slang, and there is an Omo chief in the book who suffers from "a slight guilt complex." But, by and large, this is hot, strong stuff, and not since Elinor Glyn and Ethel M. Dell has a writer put in her thumb and pulled out the sort of plum this pie is full of (e.g., "He had cut her open with a sword, but she was too proud to let him see the bleeding...
Army Game. In Alexandria, Va., ex-G. I. Norman Harris, charged with impersonating a soldier, explained that he had put on the uniform only to get into Fort Belvoir for a game of cards with some of the boys...