Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the borrower. "Fine, send me $20 tomorrow," Sam said, and padded back...
Fast Answers. With the marvels of the automated factory has come the automated office, manned by electronic brains that set up orders, encode instructions to lesser machines, post accounts, send out bills, write letters and clank out profit and loss statements. One of the newest of the great brains is the $5,500,000 RCA-built Bizmac, now being installed in Detroit by the Army Ordnance Tank-Automotive Command to keep track of tank and auto parts all over the world. Operators who sit at Bizmac's console can store away on magnetic tape records of 155,000 types...
After "Bombastes Furioso", the Pudding went gaily on, producing an average of three shows a year. These early plays were mostly poor burlesques of Broadway productions and take-offs on famous operas such as "Slasher and Crasher," and "Did you ever send your Wife to Brighton?" "Tom Thumb," produced in 1855, marked the first musical and the first production shown to a public audience...
Along with these ups, the Pudding has also had its share of downs. "Fireman, Save My Child," in 1929 went on tour to New York. Here, it was such a colossal failure that a segment of Harvard alumni in New York gathered and implored the Pudding never to send another show to Broadway. 1930's production was so good, however, that the alumni did an about face and asked them to return...
...Populi. In Washington, New Hampshire's Senator Norris Cotton received a fan letter from a high school girl: 'All my friends are saving pictures of movie stars and I want to be different, so please send me photos of twelve senators, but pick carefully, even the best are sort of funny looking...