Word: apex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bevin. As the National Government's new Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs last week that Prime Minister Churchill was missing any political busses...
...what Commander Kelly said yesterday: "As well as my energies and abilities permitted, I have refused to allow the Legion to become a part in any attempt to lead this country to a second baptism of blood in foreign lands... An unparalleled hysteria gripped America and reached its apex in May when the low countries of France/collapsed/Every agency, Government and private, and the agencies of public information, seemed to have entered into an informant and fatalistic liason to whip the fears of this country to fever heat...
...Important medical detective work is the study of clothing and bits of matter that cling to hot bullets. A shot in the liver, for example, goes through coat, vest, trousers, shirt, underclothes and skin ("which is nothing but rawhide"), forming a cone of matter with the bullet at the apex. "The direction, penetration and size of the cone are important in determining the distance and direction of the shot...
This week, in the case of Apex Hosiery Co. v. a branch of the C. I. O. hosiery workers' union in Philadelphia, the U. S. Supreme Court decided the status of unions under the Sherman Act. Essence of the decision: strikes (including sitdowns), organizational drives, other normal union activities are not within the act's purview. But unions "are to some extent and in some circumstances subject to the act" (i.e., when price control, other trade restraints are primary purposes rather than incidental effects...
...fewer (the cross section of the pyramid diminishes). Such progress was made, for example, when heat was found to be energy of molecular motion; and when light, X-rays, gamma rays, wireless waves, ultraviolet and infrared radiation were all disclosed as electromagnetic vibrations. At the pyramid's apex there should be a master synthesis embracing all physical phenomena...