Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing of the sort. By last summer, cinemaddicts who objected to Hearst newspaper policies had taken to booing Hearst Metrotone News whenever it appeared on the screen, picketing theaters that showed it. First move of theaters managers was to cut the titles with the Hearst name on them and insert substitute titles and subtitles. Last week, after his return from Europe, William Randolph Hearst made the change official. Hereafter, Hearst newsreels will be released under a new title: News of the Day, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...ruined their clothes. By last week Grocer Saunders had Keedoozle publicity well in hand, even if his store was still abuilding and may not open until next January. Keedoozle stores will be run by electricity. All articles for sale will be displayed behind glass. To purchase, the customer will insert a key in a hole in the showcase beside the sample article, press a button. In the stockroom the proper article will drop on a conveyor belt leading to the cashier's desk. Simultaneously the purchase price is recorded on an adding machine. After all purchases are made...
...makes a hole through the base of the patient's neck into the windpipe. This permits the patient to breathe during the years which may be necessary to repair his throat. Dr. Jackson's first direct step is to compress a small-sized rubber form and insert it into the puckered throat. The rubber upon expanding stretches the throat slightly. Soon as the throat accommodates itself to the stretch. Dr. Jackson repeats the process by inserting a core of larger diameter. "The treatment," said he last week, "is highly successful with children. But it should never be undertaken...
...thousand years hence ethnologists delving into college-midderns, will dig out such artifacts of Homo Universitas as the cram. The cram is a dull, boring weapon used to bar sleep from the study den. It is used to pound, stamp, and otherwise insert into the Universitas head enough assorted facts to pass exams...
...touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens knew that cheating at dice would be a great discredit to the witness in the minds of the Old Bailey jury but the director had to change the line to stealing a silver tea pot so as to insert a feeble witticism about its being plated anyway. Fortunately such departures are rare...