Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Red Army descended on its staid old plant (Justus Perthes) at Gotha, Saxony, carried off its presses and confiscated its archives...
...huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ. 196,000), although in all England only the Manchester Guardian comes close to the Times's great, impersonal prestige. If the Times suddenly vanished, most of its London readers would probably turn to the News Chronicle. The difference, as London wags put it: "The Times...
...solid, staid old banking house of J.P. Morgan & Co. -which has seen many a crisis come & go, and expects to see many another-took a look at the state of the nation. In his annual report to stockholders, President George Whitney wrote...
Emperor Hirohito, the living god and archpriest of Shinto, will soon embrace Christianity. This startling prediction was made last week by staid Professor Shigeru Nambara, president of Tokyo's Imperial University. Ever since their defeat, the Emperor and all his imperial household have been seriously studying Christian theology...
Britain's staid, state-chartered, non-commercial BBC got snubbed by a colonial cousin last week. The Union of South Africa, leaning toward the U.S. rather than the British pattern, announced that it would experiment with radio advertising. Now dividing its air time between non-commercial "A" and "B" programs-one in English, the other in Afrikaans-the dominion will build new transmitters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth for a new "C" network open to advertisers. The network hopes to combine BBC's well-tailored decorum with American money-making methods, will carefully consider...