Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...germanium transistor, now five years old, has reached a ripe, mature age as electronic gadgets grow. But, asked the Philco Corp.'s Director of Research Donald G. Fink, "Is it a pimpled adolescent, now awkward, but promising future vigor? Or has it arrived at maturity, full of languor, surrounded by disappointments...
Here and there, the transistor is doing a job, e.g., in telephone exchanges and hearing aids. But like many another infant prodigy, it is stumbling and stammering badly on the awkward edge of adolescence. Still, neither Fink nor other scientists have lost all hope. Sobered by their own mistakes, the transistor's parents are busy turning the problem child into a responsible citizen...
Actually, air-coach travel is fast becoming second-class service in name only. Instead of awkward night flights, air coaches now operate on daytime schedules, and tourists usually ride in the same equipment used on first-class runs. On air coach DC-6s and Constellations, the only major difference is that an extra row of seats is added so that passengers on the right side ride three abreast. The only important luxuries of first-class travel not available on air coaches are free meals. Domestic coach passengers must buy their food, but meals are now free on overseas air-coach...
...spindly child who wore an awkward, hip-high brace for six years to correct a curvature of the spine. But he was precocious and inquisitive, and when he arrived at the Browning School in New York at the age of nine, he was two years ahead of his class. At Harvard, where he was a shy and awkward youth, he concentrated on fine arts, was a second-string tennist and president of the literary Signet Club. He graduated with honors...
Then Agustin, a cousin of the Bringases, came back from America, and Amparo's situation began to look up. Agustin was a jewel of a man, kind, modest, a bit awkward socially, but enormously rich, and generous to a fault. Pushing 45, he was by all odds the finest catch in Madrid, but once he laid eyes on lovely, humble Amparo, the other senoritas had no chance. He proposed and Amparo accepted. There was just one problem: Amparo had once been seduced by a sinful priest, who kept popping up and asking for further favors. She was too weak...