Word: second
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were Tuesday-nighters, and three of these-Fibber McGee & Molly, Bob Hope, Pot o' Gold-were among radio'seight leading programs. Other Tuesday-night mainstays: Big Town, Information Please, We, the People, Aldrich Family, Battle of the Sexes, Court of Missing Heirs, Cavalcade of America, Second Husband, Uncle Walter's Doghouse...
...second annual meeting, the Mother-in-Law Association of Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president...
...brilliant free skating stopped the show. This year, with Miss Peppe out of competition (she is skating in a professional ice show), Queen Joan found her throne threatened by another equally brilliant free skater, a newcomer to U. S. competition: 17-year-old Heddy Stenuf. A Viennese who finished second to England's Megan Taylor in the world's championship at Prague last year, vivacious little Heddy captivated the spectators last week with her spins and jumps. But the judges, who like to point out that figure skating is not dancing on ice, awarded the title to Miss...
...example) will probably run ahead of sales for the first quarter, when manufacturers almost always overproduce against increased spring sales. This year, normal seasonal overproduction may neutralize the recession's job of cleaning out surplus inventories. If so, the slump in production would be prolonged into the second quarter...
...Bosworth ripped off his second consecutive victory in the competition for the Stevens backstroke trophy (100 yard race with a flying start) in 1:01.4. One more triumph gives him permanent possession of the award...