Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Finsterwolde's Reds make life thoroughly uncomfortable for the big landowners. During the postwar housing shortage, the rich farmers agreed to share their homes with the homeless. But, the landowners later complained, the Red town council carefully picked the most "asocial needy" to move in on the well-to-do. Currently, the Reds are plugging to build a football stadium. It turns out that the Communists intend to build the stadium astride the fields of two of the biggest landowners...
...caught up with Indiana's favorite songster, clabber-voiced Composer Hoagy (Rockin' Chair) Carmichael, and presented him with a 150-year-old Salem rocking chair. Said Hoagy from a comfortable slouch: "A good rocking chair is like music, sort of has euphony. It takes no effort to make it rock...
...years, U.S. educators have been kicking themselves for their shortsightedness: when radio came in, they let it go commercial without even putting up a fight, left themselves with only the crumbs the networks saw fit to spare. Some of them do not intend to make the same mistake with...
...possible, Menaboni draws his birds from life, to get the action right, sometimes dispatches them to do the plumage. The fact that he can keep them fresh in a refrigerator, he says, is a big advantage that Audubon would have appreciated. Another and greater advantage is his ability to make use of highspeed snapshots that show precisely the motions of birds in flight...
...sets now in use in the U.S. cannot receive CBS colorcasts even in black & white. The RCA system is fully compatible. If a station were telecasting RCA color, the ordinary sets now in use would show black & white pictures. RCA's big argument: Why make all U.S. TV sets obsolete by using the CBS system instead...