Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a rich, fluty orchestral accompaniment. Fascinated by its haunting melody (it sounds something like an old Marlene Dietrich special), disc jockeys in three weeks have played it into No. 3 on Variety's jukebox hit parade. Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature Boy's lyrics, also by Ahbez, were a cut above the usual Tin Pan Alley doggerel...
...There you are, and yet sometimes we get a notion to copy it. On the other hand, colors seem made to be painted, yet it rarely occurs to us to use them for that purpose, that is, for painting colors...
...working for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Last summer he got married, took a free honeymoon trip to Banff. "It was very beautiful, even more so than we'd expected. I guess it was the gift I appreciated most. It was the one we got the most use...
Most farmers had learned to put their fat profits to good use. Mortgages had been paid off; those that still remained were generally low in relation to farm income. The farmers still remembered how prices had collapsed after the World War I boom (see cut) as overmortgaged farmers had been sold out. This time they had reason to hope that the decline-when it comes-would be gradual...
...showing revived interest in films shot in real settings; 2) labor and production costs fall off sharply outside the U.S. (some German extras work for as little as two cigarettes a day); 3) in Britain and on the Continent, one of the best ways for U.S. film companies to use their blocked dollar earnings is to shoot movies there, then ship them back to the U.S. for release...