Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technical staff has definitely given up the plan of continuing to broadcast by means of the University heating pipes. In order to receive the best reception it may be found necessary to string wires throughout the University buildings, a method used by other collegiate radio stations...
...unpreparedness last week was money. President Roosevelt had asked for $1,182,000,000 in emergency cash and authorizations (plus previously pending estimates). The Senate in its responsive enthusiasm added $364,221,468, in the process grabbed off surprisingly little pork ($2,311,000 for the archaic, scattered string of forts which Congress forces the Army to maintain). Main items...
...country correspondent for a string of six Northwest papers, James once did a piece about Carroll Kjellman, Rochester citizen who said he had seen a robin tugging at a worm in the ground. The worm stretched until it snapped out of the earth, knocked the robin cold. Wrote Dave James: "Faced by a committee of angleworm lovers, Carroll Kjellman ... admitted he planted strips of rubber in the soil. . . . 'I'm sorry I caused the robin to be knocked out . . .' Kjellman said...
From the three-man band, the broadcast rapidly built up to 25 or 30 men a week; now boasts numerous guest stars, a white string ensemble, a colored quartet. Star of the Negro harmonizers, Lifer Joe Johnston introduces their numbers with homespun sermons; repents his past, bewails the future in haphazard doggerel. Sample...
After last week's no-hitter, Brooklynites had daffy dreams: an unbroken string of 10, 20, 30 victories. Next day they were jerked out of their trance. Against Cincinnati's Bucky Walters, the National League's No. 1 pitcher, the modern Superbas looked less superb, were defeated...