Word: catching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lungs normally excrete almost a quart of water a day, roughly 1% ounces an hour. Horn playing is not normal breathing, and in two hours' playing time a horn will act as a condenser and easily catch a glassful of water from the lungs, sir, not spit...
...brash, realistic, American enough to survive Legend No. i. Like all good legends, these were told without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think of it tomorrow" was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want...
...Associated as the balance of an $8,700,000 settlement of a $50,000,000 tax claim. Mange wants RFC to lend NY PA NJ enough to pay off the bonds, pay the taxes; he is also asking for another lump for construction, $26,500,000 in all. The catch is that SEC must approve NY PA NJ's passing any part of the loan upstream to its parent, Associated...
...editorial written by Editor Francis Pharcellus Church, the Sim answered in a fearless affirmative. "Not believe in Santa Claus!" it blustered, "You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children...
Reward last year for Joe Connolly's loyalty was a $65,000 job as general man ager of Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. But there was a catch in the job: Hearst's empire was tottering. Hearst was getting on and Joe Connolly was expected to get the empire in order before the old man died. He amputated radio stations, shuffled executives, chopped the Chicago Herald and Examiner down to tabloid size. But Connolly could not be everywhere at once. When the Herex and Chicago American units of the American Newspaper Guild struck, Connolly put his cool, alert assistant...