Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decorative native birds did not like city life. As U.S. cities expanded, the birds retired to rural refuges, leaving the shade trees and flower gardens defenseless against insects. Officials of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences discussed the problem at length, finally sent to England for an urban bird: the English sparrow...
...some smaller U.S. cities, sparrows are still plentiful. There they have solved their food problem by a kind of inverse commuting. True to their urban traditions, they build their nests in town. In the mornings they fly out to the country to forage in grainfields and barnyards. Then back they commute, full-fed, for the brawling social life in town...
...network reporting services for an estimated $600,000. Now top dog in the national radio field, Tabulator Nielsen expects to fulfill all Hooper's old network contracts with his own twice-monthly rating report. Said he jubilantly: "Radio was being short-changed by a system that measured only urban areas. But we'll soon bring order out of chaos...
...bicycle soon became the sacred cow of the Bermudas, and later, the rights of automobiles to infringe on the bicycles was severely questioned: That the Bermudans tended to discourage automobiles is still evident; speed limit on the highway is 20 m.p.h., and in urban areas, 15 m.p.h. For this reason the visiting motorist must keep a sharp eye open for careening bikes. A specially dangerous object is the "souped-up" bicycle...
Carnival, an escape into childhood by a Chicago advertising man named Georg Bromberg, was pretty and gay as striped candy. Charles S. Smith's Urban Landscape was contrastingly gloomy, but its gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...