Word: length
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paragraphs which might well be entitled "How to Get Stuck Up the Well-Known Creek Without a Paddle." Subject under discussion was a new Benny Goodman record, which I felt and still feel to be the best swing he has ever done. Record was described at great length, mentioning all the solos and going into ecstatic rhapsodies about the ensemblework. The only trouble was than I just plain forgot to say what the name of the record...
This fall the University's weather scientists put into operation the country's first automatic radio weather station, transmitting regular broadcasts of weather conditions from uninhabited stations. The apparatus broadcasts on a wave-length of two and a half meters hourly readings of wind direction and velocity, sunshine conditions, pressure, temperature, and humidity...
...length we were joined by four other lifeboats which were towed by a small motor boat. Somebody shouted at me from one of these boats: "Have you seen my wife?" And then, and not till then, so selfish is man, did J realize how lucky I was to have no one to ask after, and what this ghastly business would mean to some...
...Competitive bidding, an issue in the case only if Morgan Stanley and its syndicate partner, Bonbright & Co., were found to be "affiliates" of C. & S. ("standing in such relation [to C. & S.] that there is liable to be an absence of arms' length bargaining"). The Commission chairman, Majority Spokesman Jerome Frank made clear the irrelevance of competitive bidding "since there is concededly no rule row in effect which requires such bidding." To speed matters up, Morgan Stanley and Bonbright agreed to "impound" their cut of the proposed $28,594,000 bond issue, do all their work for glory alone...
...MYSTERY BOOK-Anthony Abbot, Leslie Ford, David Frome, Mary Roberts Rinehart & Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Four novelettes, one full-length novel-all good-by five crack mystery mongers...