Word: bunching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...around officer Britain has. The first was Commander of the Mobile Division in 1937-38. Just when he had mastered tank, antitank and armored car technique, for which he had great enthusiasm, War Secretary Hore-Belisha switched him into the Anti-Aircraft Corps Command. He found it a scratch bunch of guns without instruments, searchlights or coordination. In a year he smoothed and built it into seven highly efficient up-to-date divisions...
...together to give U. S. citizens the low-down on fifth columnists via a program called Wings For America. Using the Orson Welles-Martian Invasion technique, the Tribune-MBS aerial brain storm concerns itself with the patriotic struggles of a mythical Tribune newshen named Lorna Carroll to overthrow a bunch of Putschers calling themselves the "Advance Front." With solemn Elissa Landi playing Lorna, dapper Phillips Holmes as an imaginary MBS commentator, the first installment of Wings For America, which is due to run serially for the next nine weeks, indicated that before the show's run had ended...
Fortnight ago, a quintet of children filed into the studios of Chicago's WMAQ, proceeded to make the wizards of Information Please look like a bunch of backward spratlings. Ranging in age from seven to 14, the five little thinkers played the title roles in a new NBC show called the Quiz Kids, sponsored by Alka-Seltzer. Standing up under a fierce grilling on mythology, ornithology, spelling, music, breeds of dogs, the Chicago prodigies left listeners awed with the scope of their learning, a trifle doubtful that the program was entirely unrehearsed. Snorted Variety: "If Alka-Seltzer...
...Listen to "Sleep" and "Slow Freight" by Benny Carter and "Bugle Call" and "Slow Freight" by Glenn Miler if you want to hear the difference between a band of men that can really play, and a bunch of kids straining and not getting there. Carter's arrangement of "Sleep" is just as fast if not faster than Miller's "Bugin Call," but it has none of the tenseness and lack of molo-Ideas that the Miller does. Glenn copied Carter's record of "Slow "Freight" and even then it isn't as good as a total picture or as good...
After that unsteady first frame, Phelan had the game well under control, bearing down whenever men were on base so that the Elis were never again able to bunch more than one run in any inning. The side-arm pitcher showed a good fast ball and change of pace...