Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...internship at Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans, then cast about for a place to settle where he would feel at home. An advertisement in the Journal of the American Medical Association took him to Callaway, Neb., as assistant to a general practitioner. The young doctor had to make several calls in nearby Arnold, where a doctor had recently died. He liked the place, and within a few weeks moved...
...week. It helped, but he still has few chances to get away to the irrigation spillways to cast for bass, or onto the prairie to hunt for quail, or to the hills for antelope. Grinning, he sees a connection between last winter's blizzards (when he had to make farm calls by horse team or "weasel" tractor) and the heavy obstetrical practice in the last weeks of 1949: "The blizzards kept most people home, and we're just reaping the benefits...
...usually the case on Invitation, the discussion was friendly, adult and casual. "We try to make it sound like conversation, not a debate," says Producer Crothers, "as though the listener had sneaked up on the men at a cocktail party and overheard them." Nowadays the panel speakers shift every week, but back in 1940, when Invitation started as an offshoot of the "Great Books" program of Stringfellow Barr, former president of Maryland's St. John's College, there was a permanent panel. It was abandoned, says Crothers, because after a few months "everyone had explored everyone else...
...word with the most meanings (800) is run and its compounds (e.g., sheep run, home run, run on a bank). Put, make, pass, stand, work-all run to the hundreds. The most commonly used noun of all is man, but it has a mere 20 meanings. All in all, Lorge figured that his hard-working 570 words have 7,000 different uses...
...audience right out of its seats. Before her, a gawky torch singer named Fanny Brice and a twinkle-toed dancer named Marilyn Miller had enchanted a million-odd playgoers of the '20s. Last week, the new star that glittered over Broadway was novel enough and brilliant enough to make all of show business seem once again like a glamourous, robust legend...