Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given a big boost by magnetic-tape recording equipment. With it, pirates can record top artists and orchestras from radio or TV broadcasts, frequently have finished recordings ready for sale within a few days. They job them through a few legitimate stores, but mainly through shops dealing primarily in secondhand records. Long-playing records, which cost pirates only about $1 to $1.50 apiece to press, are retailed at anywhere from...
...payments for four years over Clark's objections. Their excuse: the Clarks were quarreling at the time and the situation was "extremely confused." Esther Clark in her turn admitted having purchased the horse out of her relief checks. But, she hastened to add, the riding boots were secondhand...
...movie improves on the play by widening its view of the school's life and atmosphere and enabling Rattigan to dramatize incidents that the stage cramped him into reporting at secondhand. Such minor characterizations as The Crock's young replacement (Ronald Howard, son of the late Leslie Howard), Actor Smith's sympathetic pupil and Actor Hyde White's hypocritical headmaster seem fuller than before, and are skillfully played. Most to its credit, the film gets up close to a superb piece of acting by Michael Redgrave, who makes the schoolmaster's inner suffering as vivid...
...With that much money coming in, Captain Eddie, who is borrowing $30 million from banks for his new planes, expects to pay most of it back, plus the other $70 million, out of earnings. And he doesn't intend to lose money selling his old planes. Demand for secondhand transports is so heavy that the canny captain thinks he can sell them off for 75% of their original cost...
...shirt, thy shoes, thy cufflinks, thy watch, every accessory thou hast on thy person?" Only too happy to oblige, Hatterr is sent packing back to town in a dirty towel and is promptly fired. He finds out later that the swami is working on the side for a secondhand clothing outfit...