Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...window, sat down again and lighted another cigarette. The voice at the ticker spoke again: "We're down to four-no, three-no, four . . ." At 4:45 p.m. Phillips looked across the room toward the machine, paused, then breathed a query: "Neck and neck?" The set faces nodded. Phillips took a deep breath, nodded and closed his eyes...
Hattie Carnegie ran up a whole new set of uniforms for the WAC, Army Nurse Corps and Women's Medical Specialist Corps. The new military colors ranged from taupe to "a rosy beige"; the shiny brass buttons became "antiqued gold...
Said Jockey Longden: "We just sighted the wire and set sail." It was fast sailing. With a 22-lb. pull in the weights, Noor (whose 110-lb. package was 3 Ibs. less than Two Lea's and 14 less than Ponder's) had run the mile-and-a-quarter in two minutes flat-just a fifth of a second off the world record and 1⅓ seconds faster than the track record set by Seabiscuit in the same race ten years...
White Tie & Tails. That was Ivan Jadan's big break. In the audience was Michel Kachouk, manager of such illustrious Russian musicians as Feodor Chaliapin and Serge Koussevitzky. Jadan's family found a home with friends in New Orleans and Impresario Kachouk set out to see what he could do to start Jadan on a new-career...
After World War 1 duty as a bugler, Willard Hargrave worked in Los Angeles as a newsman and pressagent. He studied furiously, read what little he could find about the antisocial effects of deafness, particularly in juvenile delinquency. His National Auricular Foundation, set up in 1938 next door to Los Angeles County's Juvenile Hall, has tested the hearing of 40,000 youngsters. Hargrave holds no medical degree but has turned himself into an expert audiometrist, has lectured on audiology to graduate audiences in several California universities...