Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uneven distribution of clerical funds and talent. A seven-county survey in Kansas showed 246 "overlapping and overlooking churches" in the urban areas, leaving many rural areas "unchurched" or overlooked...
Benchley's style, however, is a different matter indeed. It is probably urban and sophisticated. Not that his stories are invariably that way, but a good part of them are. Study thoroughly the works of Robert Benchley, and you will inevitably reach this conclusion. You will also be approaching him the wrong way, and mark yourself as impossibly dull and pedantic...
...Broadcast Advertising Bureau pointed out that even in the 64 urban areas that have had television stations for three years or longer, radio is still far ahead of TV, both in set sales and in "penetration" of the market. Radio-set sales in 1953 totaled 6,786,000 in the 64 mature areas; TV-set sales were 2,803,000. More significantly, 99% of the families in those areas have radio, only 81% have television...
That his sculptures were being admired in far-off England did not impress him as much as the prestige they brought him at home. For primitive man needs praise as much as the urban intellectual. Sam's priceless reward was seeing the revulsion in a native woman's face at sight of him change to admiration when she saw his carvings. To Bachelor Sam she whispered: "Ah, but you are clever...
...committee of the House and Senate authorized 35,000 new housing units during the next fiscal year, but five members of the committee said even this could not be attained. Reason: the bill provides that housing can be built only to replace structures torn down in slum clearance and urban redevelopment plans...