Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ATOMIC AGE "I Expect to Sleep" From Rome, where he was on a lecture tour, one of the world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the obvious but often forgotten point that Russia's Alamogordo does not, by any means, give her automatic parity with the U.S. Quantity, quality and means of delivery are crucially important. If the U.S. keeps ahead in these respects. Fermi could see no war for 20 years...
Tennessee's Boss Crump, whose domain shrank last election from the whole state to just the city of Memphis (and surrounding Shelby County), decided that there would be no harm now in admitting his age: 75. Never bothered to set folks right before, he told reporters, "because you've misrepresented me for 20 years, and had me younger, not older." Not that age makes any difference, he added: "You should never quit playing because you are old-you grow old because you quit playing. I enjoy life. I love life. I love people." Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren...
Moist Pebble. Not all the society's concerns are mechanical. Lectures this winter will cover psychological and philosophical problems. B.I.S. members believe it is not too soon to think seriously about such matters - that the age of space flight is not far away. A speaker at one meeting asked a ringing question: "Looking out across immensity to the great suns and circling planets . . . can you believe that man is to spend all his days cooped and crawling on the surface of-this tiny -this moist pebble with its clinging film of air?" The members answered unanimously with resounding noes...
When the Crimson opened its soccer season with a 4 to 1 victory over Tufts two Saturdays age, it looked as if Harvard was surely on its way to another good soccer year. But since then, the Crimson has bowed successively to Cornell and Amherst, primarily because there just wasn't any scoring punch...
Wiener Bluf. In Vienna, police ruled that actresses and female artists signing official papers might lie about their age, up to ten years, without risking punishment for false registration...