Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just starting its first magnetic merry-go-round and still needs adjusting. The deadly neutrons give no warning; there is no sensation of light, heat or pressure; the effect may not be felt for years. But the neutrons can cause cataracts much like those that sometimes form with old age. One difference is that cyclotron cataracts are on the back of the lens...
...postwar seminary students are a mature and serious lot. They are also numerous: U.S. Protestant seminarians rose from 13,000 in 1938 to 24,000 in 1947, Roman Catholics from 16,000 to 23,000, and Jews from 900 to 2,000. At McCormick, which is Presbyterian, their average age is 28. Ten years...
More than a third of the Protestants and about a tenth of the Catholics and Jews (who usually start seminary training at an earlier age) are war veterans; most of the Protestants are married. Few are free from financial strain. Although nearly all the students at McCormick have a part-time preaching assignment, or work at other outside jobs, most of their wives also work...
Invitation to a Voyage. The correspondence began amiably enough: after kicking young E. M. Forster in the teeth ("He sucks his dummy-you know, those child's comforters-long after his age"), Lawrence got down to business. "There must be a revolution . . . nationalizing of all industries . . . communications . . . land-in one fell blow." After that, man could really start "the adventure into the unexplored, the woman," and "fight clear to his own basic, primal being." Lawrence begged his new friend Russell to be a kind and tolerant listener...
William H. Lewis '95, Virginia-born Negro center, who achieved fame on Harvard football teams in 1892 and 1893 and later became a prominent Boston criminal lawyer, died yesterday at the age...