Word: sketchiest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...idea: Why not set up a service to supply news copy for radio-station broadcasts? At the time, network radio stations were limited by the big press services to only two five-minute broadcasts a day, and most stations had only the sketchiest of news-writing services. Moore, a former United Pressman, raised $150,000, founded Transradio Press Service in Manhattan to supply news to radio stations by teletype and shortwave. Transradio prospered; by 1939 it had 400 radio and newspaper clients, 600 correspondents and stringers around the world...
...relation to the history of thought or as the products of their eras, but too much as individual, isolated minds. In attempting to understand the significance of a man's thought one must know something of the period and environment which that thought reflects. But only the sketchiest historical background is given in the lectures and there is none in the reading...
...meetings drumming up enthusiasm for a permanent opera organization. He spent $20,000 first thing, fixing up the old Auditorium. He imported high-priced singers. At the end of his first season (1923) he went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. He had put on performances with the sketchiest possible rehearsals. He does the same thing now but he lets the rest of his staff worry. With subscribers back of him, he concentrates on picking his singers.*This year Merola has allotted his opening night to Soprano Claudia Muzio who can be depended upon for a sure-fire performance...