Word: taping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular customer couldn't be sure of a place to sit; eager-eyed newcomers were beginning to crowd the nation's 4,200-plus brokerage offices. The public was not doing much buying yet-it was still a professional's market-but moving ticker tape was once again a sight to see, and dreams of quick killings were again dreams to dream. Wall Street was nursing a baby bull, and a lot of cow-eyed mother love was suddenly loose in the land...
There is still some red tape that has to be cut in order to make the trip. Except for the Scandinavian countries, Holland, and Switzerland, all the nations require visas, the prices of which range from nothing for the Belgian to $4.35 for the French. You can try getting into Germany by writing the State Department, but there doesn't seem to be any way of touring through Yugoslavia...
...start, Dillard sits in his blocks, then drops his head and looks at his right knee instead of the tape. It helps him to relax. He has an uncanny knack for anticipating the gun. Then it is seven steps and drive. He takes a tremendous (13 ft. 2 in.) glide, the left leg cocked stiff and horizontal as it leads over the hurdle, the right knee up under his arm. When he is practicing, Bones concentrates on those first seven steps-developing speed up to the first hurdle...
...surprise. He picked out his material and style in the usual way, but the clerk took no measurements. Instead, he led the customer into a room full of mirrors, had him stand near the center. There was a bright flash and his picture was taken. Then a harness of tape measures was draped about his chest and another picture taken. Said the clerk: "That's all. We'll mail you your suit in about a month." There was no fitting of any kind...
This year, the board decided to spend five times as much on such prizes as a tape recorder, a portable playback, a 16-mm. projector, an AM-FM radio receiver, books for the school library. Last week, the board announced that in the first four months of 1948, broken windows had dropped another thousand...