Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risk as much as possible, one out of every four seniors is planning to study for an advanced degree. Since "everybody's going to college now," the ordinary B.A. or B.S. no longer seems enough for getting along. Seniors are scornful of the Big Operator with his mounting blood pressure and his coronary thrombosis. "If '49 has a class bogy, it is ulcers...
...Viking's inner works are much like the V-2's: it burns alcohol and "lox" (liquid oxygen) in a single combustion chamber. Chief improvement is in the control mechanism. When a big rocket first takes off, the air is not moving past its fins fast enough to provide steering control. The Germans got around this difficulty by putting small, movable graphite vanes in the blast of hot gas from the combustion chamber. By deflecting the gas stream slightly when the rocket wobbled, the vanes kept it upright until it was moving fast enough for the outside fins...
When Conductor Eugene Ormandy first announced the trip to England, wise guys in his Philadelphia Orchestra cracked, "Oh yeah?" They had been hearing about such tours for years, and the trips never came off. No big U.S. orchestra had been to Europe since Arturo Toscanini toured with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1930-and lost $250,000 doing it. Last week, to the wise guys' surprise, they were actually barnstorming through Britain...
...bright-eyed little Negro girl from Keyport, NJ. rolled into Manhattan with a high-school diploma in her hand, and an idea in her head that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
Last week the big time was really beginning to bring its fat returns to Juanita...