Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advertising. General Charles McKinley Saltzman, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, said that the Commission was helpless, under the Radio Act of 1927 which permits no governmental censorship of radio programs, to stem the tide of "excessive and nauseating advertising." Though British listeners hear no advertising, they must pay a government license tax. There is small doubt that the 15,000,000 U. S. owners much prefer a "sponsored program-a genteel, ladylike term for radio advertising," to a broadcasting...
...forced the opposing batsmen either to pop weak flies to the outfielders or to bat out easy rollers into the hands of the greedy infielders. In addition to MacHale's stellar pitching, the entire nine turned to and gave the moundsman fine support, making several speedy infield combinations to stem the scoring efforts of the Providence team...
...that front bites better with a Dowaglac." O God, O Montreal what had he done? Laughter, like summer thunder beneath distant horizons, shook the clapboards. Sacro-illiac was a part of anatomy. From that opening salvo it was as impossible to turn the conversation into familiar channels as to stem the full tide. Those boys so normal in college days, who had hung on the Vagabond's every word with awe and rapture, now forgot him. Their talk was medical talk. Their tragedies were medical tragedies. Their jokes were medical jokes. My and what poor jokes medical pleasantries...
...lighting the sweaty faces of many men. Sinclair Oil Co.'s No. 1 Cole well had gushed in, caught fire, killed nine workmen, belched flame for eight days (TIME, May 11). Suddenly came an ear-splitting explosion heard 15 mi. away in Longview. The fiery mushroom lost its stem, swirled up into the night, vanished...
...amalgamation question" reached a crisis when the great German offensive of March-to-June 1918 pushed the Allies back to the brink of defeat. General Pershing rushed to Marshal Foch, impulsively offered troops to help stem the tide. The emergency created by the German attack dissolved disagreements, put U. S. divisions helter-skelter into the line for quick action...