Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday. In "Meet Me in St. Louis," Judy Garland sings the Trolley Song and is dewy-eyed with not-so-bad results. "The Three Caballcros" shows Walt Disney as a good neighbor and a bad movie producer. There's some fine music, but that was already tiresome a year age...
...ATOMIC AGE...
Anybody have any ideas about how to defend the U.S. against rockets? Guided missiles? Atomic bombs? Free-lance inventors are frequently regarded as crackpots-but not in Washington, these days. Last week the National Inventors Council called on scientists, engineers and amateur inventors to submit schemes for atomic-age warfare. Practically any approach to the problem will be carefully considered: how to disperse a population, how to guard against radioactivity, specially designed buildings, interception gadgets, warning devices...
...University of Geneva's Professor William E. Rappard pointed to Germany as the nation which had done most to make "her scholars the intellectual bodyguard of her warlike rulers. . . . [But] who, in this totalitarian age of ours, is without sin in this respect? .... Those who expect the university ... to turn out good citizens in the conventional sense of the term, successful men of affairs and staunch adherents to any prevalent religious, social, or political creed, will inevitably be led to limit the freedom of research and teaching...
...mammoth American Thesaurus of Slang (TIME, March 2, 1942) had more than 100,000 words & phrases in it. By the time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...