Word: vane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Between Two Worlds (Warner), ready for release, is the second screen version of Sutton Vane's morality play (Outward Bound) about death and judgment...
...transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument had three main elements: 1) a short-wave sender-receiver which could bounce back a beam, through clouds, smoke or rain, from a small object (e.g., a plane or ship) as much as 130 mi. away, 2) a vane to determine the object's direction, 3) sensitive electronic tubes to measure the object's distance by timing the echoed beam, which travels with the speed of light - 186,000 mi. a second...
...GOPresidential weather vane veered minutely but perhaps significantly last week. The puff of wind came from Wisconsin, whose April 4 primaries will be the first solid test of Wendell Willkie's 1944 popularity with the party rank & file. Two prominent candidates for places as Dewey delegates to the Republican convention declared themselves fed up with waiting for the New York governor to say yes or no, shifted their candidacies to the Willkie slate...
...chicken. When I get bigger, I shall be a fowl. When I am bigger still, I shall be a cock." Heimer's words fit him to a startling degree: "[Arpad's] a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane-one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...
...finest trait is his humanness. Pause and bean-lean Rewriteman Mel Heimer, 28, who now writes the Arpad stories, have given their bird a personality as individual as Donald Duck's. Says Heimer: "He's a chiseler, a no-good with the mental ability of a weather vane -one day one thing, the next day another. In short, a stinker...