Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case. Back from the war he finds the old England swept away: "All the initials have gone from inside the bowler hats." With mystic joy he accepts the unpaid, unwanted post of Co-Warden of the Badgeries, an ancient symbolic office whose sole relic is a stuffed badger. Hardly has his new identity begun to cover him when he is killed as he falls on a pike during a symbolic parade to the glory of symbolic England that was. Just as sad is the case of the man so sexually unidentified that he wrote "Church of England" against the word...
Vocabulary Builder. Since Caltech is dedicated to science and engineering, it is only natural that its laboratories should outnumber classrooms about five to one. And out of these laboratories have come some major revolutions in knowledge. The terms that Caltech has made important -cosmic ray, Badger's rule, alpha helix, Neurospora, positron, meson and mumeson-may not be exactly household words, but they have become standard parts of science's vocabulary...
...Millikan, the first boss of modern Caltech, who discovered the cosmic ray and first measured the charge of the electron. Nobel Laureate Thomas Hunt Morgan unlocked the mysteries of the chromosome, and Richard Tolman helped prepare the way for the modern theory of chemical-reaction rates. Richard Badger's rule described the relationship between the vibration and size of two-atom molecules. Through his work on the red and yellow pigments of such plants as carrots and tomatoes, Laszlo Zechmeister has determined some of the molecular configurations that are effective precursors of vitamin...
With about half a mile to go, Crimson stroke Platt raised the beat to 34 and the prspect of overtaking Wisconsin, still less than a length ahead, improved as Badger number four oar Lou Uehling caught a crab. He recovered well, however, and the stability of his beat was little affected...
...then, word of the Times exclusive was racing around Washington. Newsmen began to badger their own sources, and copies of the report were leaking fast. Knowland and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who were lunching that day with Secretary of State Dulles, angrily reported the uproar to him. As a result, Dulles' office told reporters after lunch that copies of the Yalta record and background briefings would be released to the entire press later in the afternoon...