Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panels. Said he: "TV is the biggest racket ever invented. I love it. Half an hour's fun a week-and they pay you for it ... Most of the mail I get is from eleven-year-old children who say 'I loved your book, David Copperfield, please send me your picture...
...toward the south. And major-league managers quickly recognized that the off-season workouts would do their players no harm. For the last seven years Caribbean Confederation teams have been allowed to recruit big-league players. To give the bushers a break, each big-league club is permitted to send only three players who have been on the roster more than 45 days...
...matter how mundane his advice may sometimes sound, Dr. Peale always returns to the need for prayer-and "prayers that have plenty of suction." To Dr. Peale, "prayer is a sending out of vibrations . . . In our brains we have about two billion little storage batteries. The human brain can send off power by thoughts and prayers." The big rule is "1) PRAYERIZE, 2) PICTURIZE, 3) ACTUALIZE." Much of the book's advice falls under a fourth possible heading, PASTEURIZE, e.g., "A mind free of negatives [will] produce positives, that is to say, a clean mind will deliver power...
...chain and of National Theaters, Inc. (totaling 650 theaters); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Son of a Greek farmer, dynamic Charlie Skouras emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slaved as a bus boy in a St. Louis hotel until he had saved enough (in three years) to send for brother Spyros (now president of 20th Century-Fox) and brother George (now president of United Artists Theater Circuit). The brothers bought a nickelodeon in St. Louis in 1914, with smart showmanship and incredible energy parlayed it into a coast-to-coast theater chain by the 1930s, became...
From a sociological point of view the picture has a little interest. Muttering something about "dignity," Crosby idealistically resists an attempt to get the general on a television program where his trouble would be aired from coast-to-coast and people would have a chance to send him nickels...