Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After boiling up over radio's censors, Fred's cup of wrath floods the entire industry. "The scales have not been invented," he says, "fine enough to weigh the grain of sincerity in radio." And, "Everything in radio is as valuable as a butterfly's belch." Network vice presidents are his favorite dish. They are "a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference." Their conferences are "meetings of men who singly can do nothing, but collectively agree that nothing can be done...
...reason the show soared: there was never a message to weigh it down. Children, no matter how solemn, seldom worry about what their paintings mean; they are too busy deciding how the pictures should look. Grownups can bother their heads about the meaning-and some do. In a book published last week (Painting and Personality, University of Chicago; $10), Psychologists Rose Alschuler and La Berta Hattwick read some big meanings into little dabblings. Among them: emotionally well-adjusted little children incline to paint free, open forms, in warm colors. Unhappy ones often choose cold colors (especially black), paint tightly enclosed...
...Junior or Senior not on the Dean's List who fails to attend his last college exercise before or his first college exercise after the Christmas or April recess will not necessarily be placed on probation at that time, although such cuts will weigh heavily against him if his record becomes unsatisfactory...
Born in Palestine and schooled in Manhattan, Chaplain Abramowitz has seen his people's problems in several lights. The knotty decisions his position forces him to make weigh heavily on his inexperienced shoulders. Last week, doing the best he knew how, he had taken a firm stand and was defending it with dignity...
Entrants must weigh in at the Indoor Athletic Building on Monday from 3 to 6 o'clock. Drawings will be held and posted on the Indoor Athletic Building's bulletin board before noon Tuesday, with the first matches to be held that afternoon...