Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the convention ended, a wag slowly lowered the mechanically operated shades at the convention hall's 16 windows, a delicate way of predicting curtains...
...crisis was a backbreaker for Swing. On Aug. 21, when the Russo-German pact popped, he wrote a searching 2,000-word analysis of its meaning in an hour and a half, from then on until war was actually under way stayed on the job virtually around the clock. His calm, unflustered shot-calling over this period, when the rest of radio was scaring up disjointed bulletins one-a-minute, won him the main body of his now enormous following. It also won him a sponsor, White Owl cigars...
...after seeing his cinema debut as the Archbishop of Paris in The Hunchback of Notre Dame: "I saw myself act and heard myself talk for the first time in my life. I looked a little different than I thought I would and my voice didn't sound the way I thought it always did. ... I was nothing to make myself say I was wonderful; but then, I don't think I was awful either...
Boost for Canals. For more than half a century a dispute has raged in a mild way among astronomers as to whether the "canals" of Mars are real or optical illusions. The canals are easier for imaginative astronomers to see than to record on unimaginative photographic plates. But last week Astronomer Earl Carl Slipher of Lowell Observatory, armed with good photographs of the red planet taken during its close approach last summer, declared that these pictures and others made during the past 35 years all show the canals clearly defined and in the same place...
...Later, the snakes emerged above ground and fought their way back to 'respectability.' To help accomplish this, they had to invent one substitute after another within the eye, to take the place of the lost lizard-eye features. The fact that the snake eye is such a bunch of ersatz thus sheds light, for the first time, upon the habits and history of the first serpents...