Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...big job was to find just how to vary the current. To make the fish wiggle properly, he discovered, the intensity of the current must rise suddenly and die away slowly. Such "pulses" must be about two-thousandths of a second long. The pause between pulses must be timed to the natural swimming motions of the fish. Since little fish move their tails faster than big fish, the pulses must come closer together (about 20 per second) to catch little fish. A current with two pulses per second catches big ones...
...brilliance. But Lester Markel knows, more intimately than most, that it is not yet doing a first-rate job. The Sunday book section, now frankly a "news book review," tries to balance its major reviews with quick looks at minor books, literary letters from overseas, interviews with big-name authors and book-trade gossip. New Editor Brown expects to do it better. Said Markel hopefully last week: "We'll get along. Brownie knows the kind of fellow I am-not too easy to understand, a little tough to work with...
Later there was a formal dinner for the clergy in the Community House, but Father Berard slipped away as soon as he could to join the big Navajo feast outdoors. While the Indians gulped boiled mutton, pinto beans and coffee, Yazzie moved from group to group, pinching chubby brown cheeks of babies in cradle boards, gossiping with oldsters about tribal affairs. Said one Navajo patriarch: "The Long Robes are all heart, but Long Robe Yazzie is a heart and a head...
Baltimore's big (1,200 membership), Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church announced that it had selected a co-pastor who was not a Methodist and did not expect him to change from his present denomination, Disciples of Christ...
After thinking over President Truman's Point Four program for backward nations, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram spotted a big flaw in the idea. Point Four would wrap a protective government guarantee around private funds invested outside the U.S. What irked Schram was that there was no program for improving "the shabby treatment of capital at home...