Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steinhardt's telephone was housed in a heavily insulated box; it seems that the Russians have a supersensitive pick-up that eavesdrops on a conversation over the telephone, through voice vibrations in the room, even when the instrument is not in use.) But in Czechoslovakia today, people simply aren't the kind who swarm into the streets looking for a scrap. Right now, I think they are just bemoaning their fate, and secretly hoping to be liberated by war between Russia...
...obeyed the laws of physics and fallen down. In the sixth round, Champion Ike Williams (alias the Trenton Tiger) had him backed into a corner, a helpless hulk. Ike punched away until his arms grew weary, then lowered his gloves and looked at the referee as if to say: "Aren't you gonna stop it?' What was holding Beau up? None of the 12,952 spectators knew. Getting no help from the referee, Ike reluctantly went back to pounding his victim. When Referee Charley Daggert finally called a halt, the beaten Beau was still propped...
...wide-eyed audiences from Nova Scotia to Los Angeles. As he became a showman, the Service sagas became Mike's own: he had actually witnessed the shooting of Dan. Last week, Klondike Mike, white-haired, but still straight as a pine, chatted about the good old days: "There aren't many oldtimers like me left any more . . . You know, I used to know old Dan McGrew. He was a big hulking fellow. He'd shoot a man at the drop of a hat. I remember the night he got it. Lou ["the lady known as"] wasn...
...busiest but the safest form of transportation. Last year, in Manhattan alone, 31,500 elevators carried between four and five billion passengers, injured only 118, killed 15. Half of the accidents were caused by the careless use of keys to elevator shaft doors (people step into cars that aren't there...
...speech last week to the American Psychopathological Association, in Manhattan, Dr. Kinsey stuck to his guns-arguing, even more emphatically than he has before, that man's sex habits aren't very different from those of other mammals. Most of man's sexual behavior that is now considered abnormal, he said, is "part & parcel of our inheritance as mammals and is natural and normal biologically." It is, he said, scientifically sound to look to mammalian background "as sources of human behavior." He was seconded by Yale Psychologist Frank Beach, who has studied sex habits from shrews* (mouselike...