Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audiences who have heard Miss Anderson sing Crucifixion have sometimes been too awed to applaud. They have sensed that they are participants in an act of creation-the moment at which religion informs art, and makes it greater than itself...
...Bridgehead. Early in the battle, he had taken a position where all of organized labor could view him, where all of organized labor would have to applaud him, whether it liked him or not. His legal position was debatable; his moral position was worse. The court had merely ordered him to postpone-until the legal questions of his coal contract could be adjudicated-an action which would do the country great injury. This was the order he had defied. The order was the first step to an injunction, a word which labor mortally hated and feared. So on the bridgehead...
...seems you don't approve of the way things are run down here at Princeton, and you applaud and endorse your own standards over and above ours. The Princeton boys don't cheat, you say, because there is the "honor system." That's true, they don't, and because of the honor system, too. The only reason the "honor system" was dropped here during the war was because some prospective Harvard men were sent here in the V-12 units. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but we do have morals and ethics here, and the "honor...
...Philco-with Bob Hope as guest star-was waxed last week, but ran two minutes overtime. Producer Bill Morrow put it up to Philco: whose lines should he cut-Crosby's or Hope's? Philcomen went into a huddle, came out with a decision for audiences to applaud: "Cut the commercial...
...applaud the innovation in British recording engineering (Crimson, Sept. 25) extending the upper limit of recording frequencies to "14,000 kilo-cycles." We congratulate, you on your use of the words "hush-hush" in this connection, since the upper limit of human hearing is generally conceded to be roughly 20 kilocycles...