Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cosmopolitan magazine had a new solution to the problem of what to do about those short, blunt words Ernest Hemingway uses in his latest novel, Across the River and into the Trees, which the magazine is serializing. When Scribner published For Whom the Bell Tolls, the word obscenity was substituted for each bad Hemingway word-e.g., the memorable line, "I obscenity in the milk of your fathers." Cosmopolitan decided to use the word deletion in parentheses. Sample edited Hemingway line: "Every time you shoot now can be the last shot and no stupid (deletion) should be allowed to ruin...
...still heard the roar of the crowd and the money-jingling song of the promoters. Last week, after three tune-up fights along the comeback trail, Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Roach shuffled his feet in the rosin box at Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena and waited for the bell. The memory of what "Cerdan did to him had apparently faded; he insisted that he felt as strong and fast as ever...
...thick-nosed Milanese Labor Leader Gaetano Invernizzi made a flying leap from the top of the Communist benches into the heart of enemy territory. He was promptly kicked in the skull by potbellied Veronese Sculptor Eugenio Spiazzi. "Session adjourned!" screamed the chamber's President Giovanni Gronchi, jangling his bell madly...
Early man-made quartz crystals were too small to be useful. During World War II the Germans did better, but not well enough. Last week Dr. Albert C. Walker of the Bell Telephone Laboratories told a gathering of scientists in Ithaca how Bell engineers had improved the German process until it grows quarter-pound crystals in only two weeks...
...Bell crystals are grown in thick-walled steel "bombs" filled with a water solution of alkaline material (see diagram). At the bottom is a layer of finely ground quartz (silica). A small quartz crystal (it may be only a sliver) is suspended near the top. When the bottom of the bomb is heated to 750°F., and the pressure raised to 15,000 Ibs. per sq. in., the ground quartz dissolves. Its molecules diffuse through the solution. When they reach the cooler top of the chamber, they deposit one by one on the "seed," building it into a perfect...