Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every afternoon, millions of U.S. youngsters tune in a radio program that begins: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . . It's Superman!" Last week, radio row was still chuckling over Clayton ("Bud") Collyer's dilemma. Like many another commuter, the 37-year-old radio actor who plays Superman had been stuck in Manhattan by the rail strike...
Lord Leverhulme was a grocer's son, He learned to sell when he was young, And all the tune that he could play Was "Advertising Makes It Pay" Over the hills and across the skies, By God it pays to advertise...
...twelve, the Quints are rosily healthy, haven't had even a cold in three years. They still study under private governesses (nuns) in their 19-room, nine-bath Callander, Ont. mansion, have about average intelligence. Their accomplishments: they peck out a fair tune on their three pianos, chirp a pleasing soprano, and sketch a promising freehand...
Eight to the Bar. In Boston, Mrs. Catherine Bills sued for divorce, got it. Grounds: Husband George beat her-in tune to the radio...
...controversial Dominion-provincial conference, one of his biggest reasons to stay at home, was now ended. More importantly, London, which had been trying to get Mr. King overseas for an "Imperial Conference," had changed its tune. It was now calling the current London meetings of the Empire's prime ministers merely "consultations." And it had decided not to limit conversations to Empire subjects such as trade and defense, which Mr. King did not want to discuss. It had broadened the agenda to include the problems of the atom bomb and Germany, which Mr. King did want to discuss...