Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...age (two years) when he should have enjoyed the bounding prime of youth, a Utah beagle's muzzle was grey, his bones brittle, his joints creaky. Reason: since puppyhood, he had received regular injections of radioactive isotopes at the University of Utah's Beagleville (TIME, Dec. 27, 1954). Radiobiologists guessed that constant exposure to internal radiation somehow diminished the beagle's natural resistance to stress, accelerating the aging process. Further studies of radioactive beagles may provide clues to the nature of the aging process in man, suggest ways to impede...
Airmen and scientists long ago conquered the problem of flight at supersonic speeds, but they are still wrestling with the jet-age problem of bailing out. Both the Navy and Air Force have been betting that as speeds rise, the pilot who bails out will have to be protected from the killing blast of the airstream by a detachable, parachute-fitted cockpit that can be blasted away from the crippled aircraft. But no aircraft now being made is designed to take a capsule cockpit...
...between in the long solstice of Queen Victoria's reign, but man could always make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit...
...metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened age-but there is room for doubt. When Lisbon's walls came tumbling down, 18th century man sought a theological explanation. When a gale destroyed the Tay Bridge. Victorian England found a mechanical cause. Yet each found it natural to make a vast fuss about the loss of human lives...
...science, Psychiatrist Robert Vossmenge, and the man of God, Pastor Kurt Degenbrück, are both attached to a mental clinic in pre-Hitler Germany. Their cases have the garish intimacy of tabloid headlines-an old woman who believes her son is being tortured in the basement, a teen-age boy who shoots and kills his brother "just to see what it felt like." These vignettes, complete and unrelated stories in themselves, are used much like algebraic problems by Novelist Deich to set the doctor and the pastor puzzling over the cube roots of free will, normality, responsibility and guilt...