Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's Stevens Hotel last week-with eleven of his 14 vice presidents nodding approval-suave Niles Trammell soothed the affiliates' angers and anxieties, sent them home convinced that NBC is still the biggest thing in radio since the invention of the crystal...
Nichols beat MIT, which beat the Crimson, 45 to 42, but comparative scores are a tricky basis for sports crystal gazing...
...Trade newspapers make an attempt to do our crystal ball gazing for us, but I've found them quite unreliable. The only thing we can do is to keep up with the trends and move the minute we notice changes in them...
...Crystal Gazer. In Washington, Michael Prencipe, 18, prophesied to a Times-Herald inquiring photographer that 1949 "will be a good year for everyone," next day was arrested for housebreaking and bail-jumping by police who recognized his picture...
...that its stock with the reading public has fallen far. "It will take a chastened and informed effort to restore it," he declares, adding, "in very few spots is there any evidence of such an effort or even a recognition of its need." Reporters forfeited their function to the crystal-gazers. Worse, those newsmen who doubted the certainty of the polls "failed to express their doubts, partly by their intoxication with the accepted certainty; and partly, one may suspect, because they doubted that their papers would welcome a dissenting report...