Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Directions. Said Street & Smith President Gerald H. Smith: "They weren't making any money. We just weren't interested in them any longer." Neither was the public. From a wartime high of 4,250,000, the circulation of the two groups had plummeted to 700,000 a month. Changing times and tastes were to blame, said S. & S.; radio, television and the newsstand competition of the 25? reprint books had shrunk the market...
Jordan's statement came after recent reports that some students weren't obeying the "No Parking" signs posted recently. "The signs were installed as a safety measure in case of fire," he said. "Fire engines cannot get through the narrow driveway if unattended cars are left there...
...major studios, prodded by their New York headquarters, were withdrawing their financial support from the Oscar derby, one of Hollywood's best publicity-getters since 1928. Said Hersholt: "They say it wouldn't take so long to make a movie if the actors, directors, writers and technicians weren't so concerned with making it artistic and winning awards." Even this year's Oscars, Hersholt conceded, were not supported by three companies-Columbia, Republic and Universal-International (which released the top prizewinner, the British-made Hamlet...
...debate was supposed to give the young men an opportunity to exercise wit in reopening a question which less emancipated persons had come to regard as closed. Young men like to shock their elders, but these young men really weren't very imaginative in choosing their topic. They could have created a much more profound stir in their community if they had discussed the question, "Resolved, that Harvard University was a mistake." There is much to be said on both sides. --Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1949. Thank you, Colonel McCormick. And now, the affirmative...
...usual, Toscanini had picked singers who weren't too set in their own ways to learn his, then drilled them for weeks in his dressing room, clonking the piano himself...