Word: timely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year was 1882, a riotous time in the history of the evangelical army. In a way it was a day of victory for the Generals Booth and their followers. Statesman John Bright later wrote Catherine: "The people who mobbed you would doubtless have mobbed the apostles. Your faith and patience will prevail...
Cadets spend time learning to play trombones, trumpets, accordions, euphoniums, graduate with the rank of probationary lieutenant. After a year of correspondence study and strict probation, they are commissioned as second lieutenants with the legal standing of ordained ministers. From there they advance through the field ranks: first lieutenant, captain, major; through the staff ranks: brigadier, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, lieutenant-commissioner, commissioner...
...dramatic quality, Miner admits that it's mostly a matter of guesswork: "Plays considered surefire ahead of broadcasting time usually end up at the bottom-that happened to comedies like June Moon and Boy Meets Girl. But Turgenev's Smoke, which was expected to leave people cold, was one of the most popular we've ever done." And he adds: "There are some shows I've put on that I personally hate, but I know there's an audience for them. TV's a mass medium and there has to be something for everybody...
...borrowed airplanes from the Air Force and began to measure electrical stirring in the still air above active thunderheads. Sure enough, the instruments showed a current moving in the opposite direction to the current in fair-weather areas. The scientists figured that all the thunderstorms going on at one time generate a net current of about 1,500 amperes, just enough to balance the drain and keep the earth's charge constant...
...find out what the announcement meant: "Subsidiaries of United States Steel Corp. have announced today new mill prices . . ." Thus last week did Big Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless give his answer to the $100-a-month pensions won by the C.I.O. Steelworkers only five weeks before (TIME, Nov. 21). Because of higher operating costs, said Fairless, the company was raising the price of steel by an average of 4%, i.e., $4 a ton. Other steelmen scurried to their adding machines to figure out new price schedules themselves. But by week's end, the other big steelmakers...