Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race, and since she was the only woman who ever finished that grueling event, she was given a trophy. Three weeks ago, as a warm-up for the Channel, she swam 14 miles from Manhattan's Battery to Coney Island, going a mile or more out of her way to avoid dirty water from a sewer...
...Perhaps," Dr. Greene suggests, "if parents and teachers were to expect less of boys than of girls in the way of speech development at any given age level, there would be fewer male speech sufferers at later stages." The importance of the early years is shown by the fact that 90% of stutterers began stuttering...
...qualified its negative answer by pointedly limiting it to the "CBS network," which seemed to leave the way open for single-station deals. ABC, rumored willing to accept even a network liquor show, announced cautiously that it had "reached no decision." NBC unblushingly offered the facilities of its' network-owned Station KNBC in San Francisco for a test run. Perhaps in deference to NBC's own policy manual (under the heading: "Business Classifications Unacceptable on NBC" it lists wines and liquor), NBC stipulated that Schenley commercials could be broadcast only after midnight on a disc-jockey show...
Since war's end, Salzburg has had to watch the rise of another fine summer festival at Edinburgh. Said one Salzburg conductor last week: let Edinburgh go on being "an international, large-scale musical review"; Salzburg had its own "vernacular"-which was another way of saying that Salzburg would stick to the old tasks, and accomplish them...
...sense, the papers had been on their way to New Haven for 23 years, ever since Ralph H. Isham (Yale '14) first heard of them. One batch had been uncovered in Ireland's Malahide Castle in 1927, another in Scotland. Isham bought the Malahide papers, and after years of dickering acquired the rest. Scholars hailed them as the greatest literary find of the century...