Word: recording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crommelin was apparently unaware that the game was over; he was still shouting his defiance at the empty stands. Replying to the public reprimand administered to him by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest Sherman, Airman Crommelin was as truculent as ever. He wanted the reprimand expunged from his record, or a court-martial where he would have a chance to explain why he had released confidential Navy correspondence to the press, thereby setting off last month's revolt of the admirals...
Hugh Gravitt, a slight, nervous taxicab driver with a record of 22 previous traffic offenses, also testified: "This accident which happened was unavoidable. I see her everytime I go to bed and I said then and I still say I would rather it to have been me than...
...time operator, Monroe still finds time for table-hopping between sets, shaking hands with visiting record salesmen from the Midwest, jawing with disc jockeys from upstate, planning his next cross-country dash. Says he: "You keep in business by keeping in touch with the people . . . playing for everyone there is to play...
...Harvard University's standard, the gift was not record-breaking, but the way it came delighted Provost Paul H. Buck. The Mallinckrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis had given $50,000 to the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research-with no strings on how the gift should be used. Beamed Provost Buck: ". . . A sign of the current trend of broad support of private education by private enterprise. Enlightened management now realizes it can best serve the cause of private education as a free enterprise if it provides free funds without attaching limiting restrictions...
...unit, a $200, bright-red version of the Gl mine-detector, was purchased because turn - of - the - century plumbers were illiterate and could not record where they had laid their pipes, Robinson said, "Now," he added, "every time a squirrel runs down a drain and clogs it up, the plumbers have to dig up half of Cambridge to find the trouble...