Word: put
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ikons on the reredos above its elaborate stone altar, it was a far cry from Manhattan's John Street Church. That church was the home of the first Methodist Society in the U. S., which split wide open in 1820 and lost many a member because the trustees put a carpet on the pulpit platform...
...last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely. Narrowest squeak: the tesserae (small pieces of marble, glass, gold leaf and enamel) which make up the apse's mosaics. Shipped from Venice, they got out just before World War II put a stop to imports from Italy...
...place in recording studios, or in musicians' homes. In Chicago, where U. S. jazz flowered in its second* great period, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. Then Union Boss Jimmy Petrillo, unable to see why a musician should play overtime for nothing, put his heavy foot down. In Manhattan last year a Friday Club for jam sessions was founded by Paul Smith, adman and amateur guitarist, and Eddie Condon, band leader and top-notch guitarist. The Friday Club folded because its jam sessions, like many good ones, mingled Negroes and white...
...Charlotte, N. C. a stamp-column writer got an invitation to a philatelists' convention in Manhattan-but the philatelists had forgotten to put a stamp...
...seven eavesdropping monitor stations and 26 field auxiliaries, FCC pounced easily upon illicit transmitters, inspected ship and police radios, supervised the activities of the nation's hams. But since last June, when the President authorized a $1,600,000 fund for radio's defense efforts, aerial gumshoeing put on seven-megacycle gum boots, established a special National Defense Operations Section to supplement FCC's routine monitoring work. Now under construction are four new primary monitoring stations in Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico. Ready to swing into action is a network of 72 secondary stations. Required personnel...