Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least 13 meanings. It can mean by use of (to speak through an interpreter) and finished with (through with work). Newman proposes to replace unruly prepositions with new Ruly terms that have single meanings. Howby, for instance, will mean mode of proximate cause. Sometimes it will replace by (take by force), or with (to kill with kindness), or through (to cure through surgery). But it will always have the same basic meaning, so that even the most literal-minded computer will not be led astray...
...London press (TIME, Nov. 10), started sparring with New York Journal-American Photographer Melvin Finkelstein. The photographer claimed that Sinatra tried to run him down with a rented Cadillac limousine outside Manhattan's Harwyn Club. As Sinatra left with Model Nan Whitney, Finkelstein got set to take a picture, whereupon Frankie cried to his chauffeur: "Get him! Kill that bastard." Scoffed Sinatra: "What I read in the papers must have happened to three other guys...
...skin polecats. In high school and the University of Texas he kept himself in sharp clothes by working on local newspapers, later took "The All America Super Jazz Orchestra" to Mexico. After years of reporting (on the New York Mirror, Birdwell scored a beat on Lindbergh's take-off for Paris), the Bird found his perch as publicity man for David O. Selznick...
...these changes will take place right away. The jet age has come so fast that the U.S. is unprepared for it in many ways. Long ignored by indifferent Congresses, airway control and airport modernization are lagging badly. Only 14 U.S. airports are now ready to handle jets. Complete air control is still a paper project-though enough may be done by January to keep American's transcontinental jets under radar surveillance across the U.S. But most of the changes are inevitable, simply because the jet age demands them...
Brass Backed. Smith never let himself get sloppy, was unafraid to take a gamble to put American out ahead. For example, while most other airlines were shunning New York's newly built La Guardia field in 1938 because they did not want the bother and expense of moving from Newark, Smith saw that the shift closer to Manhattan would improve service, switched American's New York base to La Guardia. New York City was so glad to get American that the gamble paid off. Smith got a rock-bottom rental, and the other airlines were eventually forced...