Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...annual convention of the 24,766-member Guild, meeting in Washington, B.C., did not decide where the union would publish its first general newspaper. But the delegates appropriated $50,000 or "Project X," and set up a committee see where the paper-or papers-should be started. The Guild's idealistic plan: to get other unions to back Guild newspapers with funds and subscriptions, but to keep their editorial policies (though prolabor) free from "the vagaries of union politics." Commented the New York Daily News, with tolerant sarcasm: NICE IDEA, GENTS...
...trying to improve a man's copy, thus making the writer say what he didn't quite mean in a way he didn't intend." There is something even harder to take. "Just when . . . the correspondent has done all the preliminary work and is all set to cover [a] conference that the great world will be watching, he is handed a wire: 'Our Washington correspondent, Bill Blah, is arriving with the American delegation and will be in charge.Please give him every assistance...
...says Dr. Smyth, practical technology becomes more dependent upon theoretical science. It is dangerous, he explains, to concentrate on sciences which seem to lead toward immediate practical goals: "Evidence shows that the value of science to technology comes from totally unexpected quarters and that the only safe objective to set up for science is the one which it has already set up for itself: an increased understanding of the laws of nature...
...last week such scoring sprees were beginning to look like the rule rather than the exception. The Red Sox had already set a modern high-scoring mark (29 runs against St. Louis). The Cleveland Indians tied another record by scoring 14 runs in one inning. From owners, players, managers and coaches came an old, familiar cry: someone had been putting benzedrine in the baseball again...
What Canon Demant had said over the air he had already said to students at Oxford University, where last year he became Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. Calling his treatise Religion and the Decline of Capitalism, anticapitalist, anti-socialist Demant set out to diagnose the basic troubles of the time...