Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city-room bulletin board of the Chicago Daily News brought staffers around to read and argue. Written by Douglas Martin, professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, it was a report to the News on a "readability" survey of Chicago newspapers made by his students. Like many good newsmen, Martin, onetime managing editor of the Detroit Free Press, thought that short sentences and short words made for easier reading (TIME, Feb. 16). Wrote Martin: "Your sentences averaged 21.6 words . . . Syllables averaged 163 to 100 words. You were under the [Chicago] Tribune in [length of] sentences but over in syllables...
...composing some, teaching a good deal; pupils come to him from all over the world. Above all, he had never neglected his cello, or the Bach suites for unaccompanied cello which he lifted from musical obscurity 50 years ago and brought to their true glory by the lofty simplicity of his playing...
...they offered no defense witnesses. "After all," said one, "it is impossible to present a defense when there has been no offense." Instructing the jury, Judge Walter J. La Buy said that the primary question was whether Tucker and associates had intended to defraud stockholders or had acted in good faith. Even though they had failed to make cars, said the judge, "good faith is a 'complete defense." This week, after 17½ hours of deliberation, the jury acquitted Tucker and associates of all counts. Said one juror: "It wasn't so hard to reach a decision. From...
With almost all the new models out, and retooling shutdowns over, automobile production rose to 126,045 last week, highest in four months. With that as a starter, automen predicted that 1950s first six months, at least, would be as good as -or better than-last year...
...Telegram and the Sun was ready with a loud no. RFC has already lent $15 million for oil development to the Texmass Petroleum Corp. and, said the Telly, apparently RFC doesn't know that private "oil-country banks have plenty of money to lend ... If it is a good loan, how did the RFC get a chance at it? If it is not a good loan, what does the RFC mean using taxpayers' money to get into that risky business...