Word: scanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggestions that poured in from some 2.000 readers sounded like an eyewash or a new breakfast food (Oculo, Focal, Imagec, Visray, Telio, Vix). Others sounded like nothing on earth (Lookies, Peeps, Scan, Vudio, Luksee, Eyeviews). The Daily Express thought that a few revealed "outrageous ingenuity" (e.g., Vizema, Rad-E-Eye, C.-U., Look-Hear, Radi...
...told him he could take all his business in that direction. Rice did. As a quick replacement, Collier's lined up six big-name coaches (at $500 per coach).* This "Supreme Court of Football," aided by ballots of ex-All-Americas and campus sport editors, will scan plenty of football film footage each week to get a line on promising players they could not personally see in action...
...editor of the tabloid New York Daily Mirror was up at 7, to scan his own paper and his opposition over a cup of coffee. He checked in at the office by 9, got up to St. Patrick's in time to cover Babe Ruth's funeral, walked over to the Waldorf-Astoria men's bar for a reminiscent lunch with Mourners Leo Durocher and Mel Ott. Back at the office, he wrote the funeral story (see above), took 35 minutes to peck out a syndicated column that goes to 600 newspapers, and wrestled his first edition...
...stood squarely behind Russia's Andrei Vishinsky when he took a high-handed line indicating that the Communists intended to keep Western nations off Europe's greatest waterway. This policy would cost the Yugoslavs and the. other Danube countries dearly. From the heights above Belgrade one could scan the Danube in vain for signs of the heavy traffic it had carried before...
Asserting that "We're business-like but informal," he wasted no time getting down to work. The system was simple; he would scan the textbook (Binkley's "Realism and Nationalism") page by page and dictate a condensation of the material, slowly enough for me to copy into my notebook...