Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More than 10% of its draft-age men were mentally unfit for military service. (Farm boys generally were less mentally fit than city boys...
Dangerous Age. They decided-and the decision troubled them-that press freedom (meaning radio and movies as well as newspapers and magazines) is indeed in danger. It always had been, might always be: but the present danger seemed to lie within the press, not outside. They were amazed by the bigness and badness they had seen. Said the report...
...schemes proposed thus far have substituted a chain-reacting pile for the furnace of an ordinary powerhouse. The pile's heat will generate steam to run a turbine. But this, thinks Dr. Hutcheson, may be only a better-than-nothing solution, carrying coal-era thinking into the atomic age...
Such "black boxes," gushing city-size floods of electricity, would mark the real beginning of a peacetime atomic age, with unlimited power everywhere at extremely low cost...
...least-documented poet. "Fitz," a lifelong friend of Carlyle, Thackeray and Tennyson, came of a rich and ancient family, was able to shape his life about as he wished it. He did not wish to become a literary lion. "Tell Thackeray," he wrote firmly to a friend at the age of 21, "that he is never to invite me to his house, as I never intend to go. ... I am going to become a great bear; and have got all sorts of Utopian ideas. . . . These may all be very absurd, but I try the experiment on myself...