Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business had never been so good; they were twelve weeks behind orders. The Fisher radio-phonograph had sold mostly by word-of-mouth advertising. The New York Times has repeatedly turned down a Fisher ad which called it the "world's best" machine; last month, surveying the field, FORTUNE said it for Fisher...
...could stay on as a columnist if he wanted-at lower pay. Lanky, stuttering Bascom Timmons, the Washington bureau chief, picked up a phone and heard it from Marshall Field himself: Timmons and all but four of the ten-man capital crew were through. Overseas correspondents got the word in depressing cables; city-room men got it by rumor, then by dismissal notices...
Century Georgia (Author Harris, in accepted Southern fashion, always omitted the capital from the word "Negro"), is a character bound to enrage all educated Negroes, and a number of damyankees...
Seldom had a top-rank businessman given business such a rawhiding. When Charles Luckman, 37-year-old president of Lever Bros. (Lux, Spry, Pepsodent), rose up in Chicago's Stevens Hotel last week to address the Super Market Institute, nearly every word...
...spite of suddenly reverent expressions at mention of the word "Stalin," the skilled actors in this picture make the generals look like nice, fallible human beings. U.S. audiences will be particularly interested in ' the film's frequent tart, cynically distrustful references to a second front not yet launched by Russia's Western allies...