Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile, too, air services were speeded up; a new Sunday magazine of millions of circulation was evolved, with technical science yielding the spotlight to the science of concerted competition; and, bigger than all the others, Low Cost Housing was a goal which hundreds of architectural, plumbing, electrical, refrigerating and elevator engineers, to say nothing of financiers and sociologists, continued last week to believe was almost in sight...
...there is a certain aroma of a cold New England codfish over the entire half-year." That, of course, is a pretty low brand of tripe. Morison focuses his historical spotlight quite impartially over all the thirteen colonies. If he does devote two lectures to the early history of Harvard College, he carefully specifies that he considers the diversion a trifle disproportionate, unnecessary modesty, one would think, from the College's official historian lecturing in one of the College's very oldest buildings, especially since the early history of Harvard is almost one with that of the colony...
Said Mrs. Upton Sinclair, wife of the Democratic nominee for Governor of California: "I don't think that just because a man is nominated or elected to office his family should step into the spotlight...
...Franklin Roosevelt's discomfiture, Nominee Sinclair, in a dither of haste to get into the spotlight, wired him asking for an interview as soon as possible. There is plenty of precedent for a President keeping on the fence in a pre-primary campaign, but for him to deny his countenance to an actual nominee of his own party is almost unprecedented. Yet to shake Upton Sinclair's hand in welcome at Hyde Park would have tended to confirm Senator Hastings' inference. With the best grace
Florida East Coast's dramatic move last week served to spotlight the fact that the U. S. Railroad System is rapidly losing much of the ground gained in the past year. In the first six months the railroads as a whole reported net operating income of $225,000,000, up from $154,000,000 in the 1933 half. But rising costs, notably of fuel, began to catch up with rising revenues in late spring. On July 1 the first of three wage increases totaling 10% went into effect. Last week as July reports began to trickle in, it was clear...