Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interpreter. Churchill often gesticulated wildly, thundered as though addressing Parliament. President Roosevelt usually talked in a low conversational tone. Added Cornell: "Churchill was the most voluble because he was most frequently in the minority. Mr. Roosevelt and Stalin often found their views coinciding, or at least not far apart...
...megacycles) now used for television, microwaves (over 300 megacycles) cannot be sent beyond the horizon. But Raytheon's engineers say that microwaves have two advantages for transmitting pictures: 1) they can be relayed more easily, by means of automatic pickup and amplifying stations in towers about 30 miles apart, and 2) they can carry a picture on a narrower band in the spectrum, thus providing a great many more channels for transmission...
Thomas Jefferson was once young but never youthful. Something-a quality of youthful zest or spontaneity-was left out of his makeup. The lack set him apart from the men of his own age in his own time and left him a lonely figure in the great gallery of American heroes...
...bearded man in the shabby clothes who is sometimes invited is a hum, but unlike the other residents of the Bowery, Gould is not a shambling, blank-expressioned alcoholic. He has a spark of vigor--some people call it exhibitionism--and a broad Harvard A that sets him apart from the rest...
...SMALL BACK ROOM-Nigel Balchin -Houghton Mlfflin ($2.50). In a British laboratory an introspective cripple pulls an unexploded bomb apart to prove he is a man. Fresh and realistic...