Word: current
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Candidates for the Editorial Board will be required to submit at least one editorial each day. They will be expected to keep in close touch with current events...
Throughout the land that early morning countless citizens listened at their radios to the benevolent voice of George V, King and Emperor, as he opened the London Naval Parley (TIME, Jan. 27). No Columbia System listener knew then that a good part of the current carrying the imperial voice over that hook-up had passed through the body of Operator Vivian, who was too preoccupied with his tingling task to hear the speech...
...electricians hurried a new connection, rerouted the current in two minutes. Released from the live wire, Vivian's arm stopped its mad, involuntary gesticulation...
Portraitist Charles Webster Hawthorne, prefacing a current Manhattan exhibition of his work...
...September 1929, the Anti-Sweet campaign was succeeded by a series built around the line An Ancient Prejudice Has Been Removed. The ancient prejudice was the idea that cigarets were bad for the throat; the removal had been accomplished by Lucky Strike's special process -toasting. Recently and currently, however, Luckies have gone back to a more moderate treatment of the slenderness theme, but now are anti-fat rather than anti-sweet. Current Lucky advertisements, illustrated with pictures of single-chinned people throwing double-chinned shadows, urge readers to "Avoid That Future Shadow" by refraining from overindulgence. Copy says...