Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio in the 1930's, they are confident about their TV future because "all our gags are ocular." The audience-under constant attack from live piglets, cakes of ice, skirt-blowers, chorus girls and clowns -has always been an integral part of their act. The comics have not yet quite solved the problem of framing their wide-ranging madhouse on TV's small screen. By using five television cameras (instead of the two or three used on most TV shows), Olsen & Johnson think they will be able to get the visual intimacy they need. Their only other problem...
...Yet to anyone with eyes to see, all the shining threads which were to make up the fabric of an exceptional life were already present in the sensitive schoolboy of Giinsbach...
When the critics had all put up their pens, some thought Sir Walter still held the intellectual field. He had carefully rejected all the pat answers, just as carefully decided that only the Christian world-outlook is universal enough for a university. Yet such Christianity must look more eagerly toward the future's addition of ideas and events than toward the past's tradition of them. Sir Walter's hope for the universities is that Christian teachers and students, seeking "new symbols" for old values, may "play the role of a 'creative minority,' from which...
...went to see a coal dealer," he wrote, "who was complaining that people weren't yet laying in their winter supply of coal this summer. He gave me the names of some customers and I went around to talk to them...
Said one of Wall Street's shrewdest speculators: "If I could find somebody who could tell me a sure way of keeping one-fourth of my fortune, I would cheerfully give him the other three-fourths." Nobody in Wall Street has yet found the "sure way." But in a world of welfare states populated with security-minded people, more investors than ever are engaged in a ceaseless search of their own for security...