Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smiths are again playing upon the fear of Russian expansion to promote their own brand of ostrich-like islationism. In light of the lessons of the 30's, this isolation is more than a short-sighted national policy. It is an international tragedy. In spite of its tender age and influence, "American Action" must be brought out into the light before its contagion has had a chance to flourish treacherously in the darkness...
...this willingness to brave personal purgatories in the interests of others which has kept him serving the Boston Community Fund in spite of age and his horror of the "inspirational talk." Though he talked of resigning, he will probably stay on in the president's job for a while longer-he has a rare talent and Boston still covets...
...autumn day last week in Seton Village, N. Mex., death came to a man who, in an age of sweeping mechanization, had loved the natural earth, its seasons and its creatures, with rare intensity and an unusual power to communicate his vision to others. To three generations of children whom his stories of wild life had introduced to the life of woods and fields, to naturalists indebted to the scope and minute fidelity of his discernments, Ernest Thompson Seton's death was something like the falling of a forest tree...
Elliot Lawrence is a University of Pennsylvania graduate who likes to wear purple plaid jackets, yellow monogramed shirts and flowered ties. His band is almost as youthful (average age: 23) as his public. He organized his first orchestra-15 kids who called themselves the Band-busters-when he was twelve. They played high-school dances in Philadelphia. Five of Lawrence's current bandsmen are original Bandbusters, including the singer, brunette Rosalind Patton, who sang an uncertain treble for the orchestra when she was eleven, is now a limpid-voiced contralto...
...Atomic Age was going on four years old. Last week Major General Leslie R. Groves, military matrix of The Bomb, announced that the Atomic Age began officially on Dec. 2, 1942, when the first uranium pile started working under the west stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. The Army's Manhattan Project, said the General, would observe Dec. 2 as "a milestone in the advancement of science." He did not guess how the rest of mankind would feel about...