Word: arched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British admiral's son who has spent much of his scientific life investigating savages in the New Hebrides, Zoologist Baker believes that scientists are in grave danger of being regimented into total sanity. An arch-individualist, he holds that scientists must have complete freedom of inquiry. In support of his theory that most great scientists have been rather odd, and many of their discoveries the result of accident rather than planning, he presents some persuasive evidence...
With these and other explosions, Art Critic Edward Alden Jewell last week blew up in the New York Times. He was writing about a proposed temporary Victory Arch for Manhattan's Times Square, to be erected when the boys come marching home. The scheme, sponsored by the Broadway Association, was described by its backers as "an arch fashioned to represent two huge palm leaves which are emblematic of Victory. . . . At the apex of the main motif will be placed the figures of Peace and Justice. The finger of Peace will point in the direction of Europe and Asia. Justice...
...Just as you and I, Colonel McCormick . . . has both friends and enemies. His enemies brand him as a British-hating arch-isolationist, a publicity-thirsty megalomaniac. To his friends, however, Colonel McCormick is a man of independent will, a man of action, a fearless foe, ready to express himself regardless of consequences. I also assume there must be a group of neutrals who has no definite likes or dislikes about the colonel...
...desirable. They call their development "Ratio Structures" and have completed a full scale sample in The Bronx. Built on small concrete piers, it is unique in having its framework, like a snail's, on the outside. The structure is composed of two practically independent parts: 1) an arch-shaped roof made of insulated panels and supported by posts; 2) rooms, formed of demountable inner & outer panels* which can be shuffled around at will under the roof. Thus the structure has no weight-carrying walls...
Reactions. The anti-Soviet New York Sun sniffed: "A two-hour . . . editorial." The arch-Republican Herald Tribune raved: "One of the most memorable documents of our time...