Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cranberry Upside-down Cake ("I must stop because I'm making myself hungry...
...when wild falcons began attacking their carrier pigeons, the R.A.F. had almost brought British falconry to a full stop. Then an ardent falconer and artillery private named Ronald Stevens persuaded the brass that falcons could be turned to their own uses. Stevens and his birds were drafted and put to work against enemy pigeons...
...each time his team lost the ball). Often he picked up a telephone and asked: "What have you got for me?" Up in the press box, armed with binoculars, an assistant coach gave him a G-2 fill-in (Sample: "Their ends are playing wide, so try a stop-and-go to pull them in, then pass. Trap the tackle on the left side of the line...
Ultrafax will probably send few novels. But, said Sarnoff, it can duplicate movie films (such as newsreels) almost instantaneously at any distance. It can send whole newspapers. Perhaps it heralds the day when the newspaper reader, on his way to breakfast, will stop off in the living room to watch the "printing" of his morning paper...
Under FTC's rotation system, Mason is due to become FTC chairman next January (for one year) but privately he fears that the other members* will stop rotating if he does not shut up. Nevertheless, this week Mason kept on talking. "Down in my shop," he told the Boston Conference on Distribution, "it seems as though business is a pretty bad thing." Then he recited another jingle...