Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...James also went into politics, was mayor from 1844 to 1845, set up New York's first uniformed police force. From the officers' copper buttons came the slang term "cops...
...school tie atmosphere that filters down through all echelons. BBCmen work hard and enthusiastically for very little money, and the revenue for their modest salaries comes almost entirely from the listening public. Each Briton pays ?1 a year for his radio license fee or ?2 for his TV set. Additional income pours in from BBC's impressive list of publications, which accept advertising even though BBC does not. For the year ending March 1950, on an income of ?11,031,791, BBC showed a net profit (?1,099,572), for the 18th consecutive year (BBC's extensive overseas...
Light, Home & Third. A British listener, fiddling with the knobs on his set, can pick up three and sometimes four programs. They come to him, not over competing networks, but on three interrelated radio services called the Light, the Home, and the Third Program. In addition, each of the six regions of Great Britain (the North, Midlands and West of England; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) has a BBC station that broadcasts local shows, news and sporting events or programs in Welsh and Gaelic...
...School Tie. Though a monopoly, BBC is neither directly owned nor controlled by the government. It is set up as a public corporation under a Royal Charter that is normally renewable every ten years. The Postmaster General, who controls all of Britain's communications, may prevent anything from being broadcast. But he has never exercised his right of censorship...
Almost everybody turned out to the oak-covered slope where a semicircle of seats had been set up. White-bearded, 106-year-old Uncle Harve Sparks, who came over from Bean Fork Hollow, sang a tune in his squeaky voice when the parson introduced him. Tall Scott Partin himself was on hand to reminisce about the old feuding days: "There would be mountain prejudices and it would spread . . . You'd have to go in shootin' and come out loadin...