Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having read so much ridiculing Governor Dickinson of Michigan for his utterances, I am prompted to express my feelings. First, permit me to state that I am not a crusader or reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special concern to me whether it be New York or Padooka-one fact is very obvious all about us-we as a nation are becoming extremely calloused, and as Damon Runyon so aptly put it in his column a few days ago, extremely sinful...
This week TIME introduces a new regular section, WORLD WAR (begins p. 20). Better to organize news of the conflict, WORLD WAR will report in words, pictures, charts, maps the war's strictly military aspect. In addition, TIME'S war reporting will include occasional special documentary features, like this week's preview of White Papers (see p. 38) and list of Europe's Leaders (see p. 24). Political, social, ethical and other nonmilitary aspects of national life in Europe and elsewhere overseas will continue to be covered in Foreign News...
Since March, Arch Oboler has been writing, casting, directing, dabbling with radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for the first time in a dramatic show. Reason: sixtyish Alia Nazimova, Stanislavsky-trained, Ibsenite and cinema siren, had been won to radio...
...central transmitter. For that sort of emergency, BBC has already set up stand-by transmitting apparatus in secluded spots away from England's easily bomb-sighted industrial centres. BBC's war emergency plans also included shutting down its television transmitters, releasing the ultra-high frequencies for special military services...
...adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences. But Bemelmans is still a Katzenjammer kid. His fame, in fact, rests largely on the fact that he never outgrew his Katzenjammerism; it gives his drawings and prose a special quality of naive sophistication, outlandish imagination, impulsiveness, sly satire...