Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buttonhook Service" in the Pushbutton Age was indeed a great service to your readers. However, I wonder if we were not closer to "the perfect, unbreakable machine" back in 1950 than we are now. Are we not losing ground? Is progress in reverse gear? As Groucho Marx once said to the woman who was approaching 40: "From which side?" The only dependable gadgets in my home are the old ones. Why could we build such quality in years past and not today? Who sabotaged...
...Attorney General William Pierce Rogers, who at 44 will be the youngest member of the Cabinet. It was the third major change in the Eisenhower Cabinet in three months (others: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson for George Humphrey, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy for Charles Wilson) and brought the average Cabinet age down from...
...called Bohr "a scientist and a great human being who exemplifies principles the world sorely needs-the spirit of friendly scientific inquiry, and the peaceful use of the atom for the satisfaction of human needs." Replied Bohr: "The rapid advance of science and technology in our age, which involves such bright promises and grave dangers, presents civilization with a most serious challenge. To meet this challenge . . . the road is indicated by that worldwide cooperation which has manifested itself through the ages in the development of science...
...Age of Steam is one of the best examples published to date of this squirrel-like activity of the past decade. Snorting steam engines parade through its pages in glorious profusion under bushy black columns of smoke. The photography is top grade, as no railfan would be caught dead without a good camera (and a surprising number know how to use them). And the Dutch printing and engraving is superb...
...more sane portion of the reading public, The Age of Steam presents a pleasant glimpse of a picturesque era but recently vanished. To the uninitiated, it might even offer an inkling of how railfans got that way in the first place