Word: paneled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio audience never hears. Engineer Charles C. Grey has a control panel at his fingertips; Production Man Herbert Liversidge hardly lifts his eyes from an edited, last-minute score. Liversidge reads the score some six bars ahead, keeps Grey posted with hand signals on who or what is coming-a thumb-forefinger circle for female soloists, a single, raised finger for men; two for duets, all five for choruses, a clinched fist for the whole works. Grey watches the signals, ready to take squeals out of coloraturas, distortion out of tenors, ear-splits out of ensembles...
Plymouth: built on the 1940 Plymouth car chassis, with regular 84 h.p. motor; four models, station-wagon $870, pick-up delivery $620.71, panel delivery $720, utility sedan $699. Feature: Plymouth car styling in front...
Willys-Overland: a new station wagon at $799, a pick-up truck for $525, a panel delivery for $799. Claim: 20-28 miles on the gallon...
...Solon's peaceful revolution," says Durant, "is one of the encouraging miracles of history." He introduced a graduated income tax, created a popular assembly to check the old-fashioned aristocratic council, made the entire citizenry a panel from which jurors were chosen. The quarrelsome Athenians might not have stuck to these laws if a dictator, Peisistratus, had not enforced them for a generation; after that they became habitual. About 507 B.C. another persuasive political thinker, Cleisthenes, extended an Athenian device which for pure democracy has never been equalled: selection of legislators by lot from the whole list of citizens...
Every candidate was officially chosen for the ballot, and as there was no way of registering opposition except by crossing out all the names, results were gratifying. In Western Ukraine, 92.83% of the electorate took part, and 90.93% voted for the official panel of 1,484 men, 239 women; in White Russia 96.71%, voted, 90.67% in favor of 804 men, 123 women. One candidate had been in prison for 19 years...