Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, Princeton's Centre does its listening over two short-wave receivers seven days a week from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. Under favorable conditions it hears an average of 65 programs a day. Last week the centre transcribed its 1,000th program, issued its sixth report. Some of its findings...
...Palestine's numerous tribal wars, the Ephraimites sought to slip undetected among the Gileadites, the latter asked all comers to pronounce the word "shibboleth" (ear of corn). Those who called it "shibboleth" were Ephraimites, got killed. Last week many a shibboleth was voiced on a new Mutual network program called Where Are You From? Dr. Henry Lee Smith Jr., smart, wispy-mustached, 26-year-old Columbia University lecturer in English, cocked an expert ear when members of a WOR studio audience read improbable statements like the following...
Although the program can be heard by anyone with a radio equipped to pick up short-wave broadcasts, the IBS board pointed out today that the campus network rebroadcasts will enable hundreds of college students wthout short-wave sets to hear the University Hall celebration. Four other programs will be relayed from Brown and WRUL on Fridays at 8-o'clock during...
...program will include a String Quartet, Sonata for Flute and Plane, three songs, and the first performance of Professor Hill's Concertino Number 3 for Pianoforte and Orchestra...
...honor a special concert with a program drawn entirely from his own compositions will be held at 8:30 o'clock next Friday evening in the Music Building...